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I’d like to thank all of you and the sponsors of this event for giving me this opportunity to express my views.

My wife has suffered from mental illness, so we have spent a lot of time at the Scarborough Grace Hospital, and I appreciate the service provided by its hard-working staff. So my criticism is not directed at anyone’s efforts to do their best with the system we have.

However, as a Libertarian, I believe we must bring to an end this failed experiment in centrally planned government controlled health care.

In a Libertarian system, the government would be limited to protecting basic individual rights and would not limit our health care choices.

The reason we have SHORTAGES in facilities and health care providers - with patients waiting and suffering - is because we use government to limit the choices of others.

If you realize that, then please support Free Market Health Care and vote Libertarian, vote for Alan Mercer.