Quinton Barry

Training/Practice: Contemporary Issues in Cardiology PracticeArticles in PressOpen access 1Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2Division of Critical Care, McMaster, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 3Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 5Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 6Division of Cardiac...

Canada has been praised for its universal health care system and low drug prices,1,2 yet, it is the only country with universal health care that does not provide global coverage for prescription medications.3-6 Only one-third of Canadians are eligible for publicly funded drug plans.

A most interesting and informative history by a retired English judge describing how the United States, almost accidentally, became a colonial power at the end of the nineteenth century. Wrapped around an “only in America” court case that arose from America’s victory over the Spanish in the Caribbean in 1898, this is also a detailed history of the naval part of that far from glorious war.