Kathryn, your post on Canadian waitlists reminded me of the good Dr. Jacques Chaoulli, public enemy number one of Canada’s agonizing health-care bureaucracy. His experience leading up to his victory in the Canadian Supreme Court a few years ago puts a human face on the misery of government-run medicine. Of course, President Obama’s supporters could raise the defense that ObamaCare doesn’t go quite as far as Canada’s system in terms of state control. But then, many of them consider that a disappointment, not a relief.

— Anthony Dick is a student at Stanford Law School.