Single-payer setback: It didn't help the cause of single-payers who are in love with the Canadian health care system when the premier of Newfoundland secretly traveled to the United States for heart surgery.

Danny Williams, 60, made the situation worse in an interview after the surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, Florida. "This was my heart, my choice, and my health," he said from his condominium in Sarasota. "I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics."

Yikes! Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of Canadian citizens who can't afford to buy their way out of the Canadian health care system and must wait months and months for care -- care that Premier Williams clearly didn't think made the grade as "the best possible care."