Here’s some counter-testimony to the stories the health industry has been bandying about concerning the supposed problems with the Canadian single payer system. My own view? Stories about Canadian health care being circulated by those who are trying to defend annual CEO compensation running as high as $24 million are just not to be taken at face value, and after the past generation of lying and dissembling on various matters, neither are the claims of Republicans, the party of Karl Rove, the neo-cons, and “the noble lie,” or those Democrats who have received sizable contributions from a health insurance industry that would be out of business if we had the single-payer plan we deserve.