Is The Government Responsible For Health Care?

I'm a big fan of NPR's Intelligence Squared debate program, and their last episode offered an interesting debate around whether or not the U.S. government should be responsible for healthcare.

One of the more amusing moments was when Paul Krugman asked Canadians in the audience whether or not they were happy with their healthcare system. There weren't many, but it was more or less unanimous that they didn't like the Canadian system - not quite what he was hoping to have happen in the middle of the debate, I'm sure. Oops.

Anyway, it was a pretty spirited debate, and it makes for good listening with only a month to go in the Presidential campaign.