The raging leftie Western European nations are all less lefty than Canada on health care - "two-tier" care is the norm in some, and in the rest there are user fees. So there is still a general pattern of higher numbers of doctors in countries with a partially-private health system. What's the number in Cuba, do you know? I believe that's the only country in the world that bans private health care as strictly as Canada.

I'm in favour of socialised health care, don't get me wrong. But I think the concern that exclusively socialised health care lowers the number of doctors per capita in the population is a fair one.