Center for Medicine in the Public Interest president Peter Pitts challenged Walter Dura...er, Paul Krugman's advocacy for the Universal Health Care Final Solution in a New York Times letter to the editor published Thursday.

Pitts cites research by Canada's Fraser Institute indicating Canucks waited on average 18.3 weeks for specialized treatment in 2007. (The Fraser study also notes that, "waiting times for access to diagnosis using expensive medical technologies are also remarkably long. In 2007, patients were forced to wait roughly one month for CT scans, more than two months for an MRI, and nearly four weeks for an ultrasound.")

Pitts also mentions the controversy over the British treatment-rationing ministry's ruling that certain potentially life-extending cancer drugs were too expensive and should therefore be banned from use in the U.K.'s single-payer paradise.