The next time people keep talking about health care in Canada or the UK...

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Make sure to tell them that there's no plan to implement either style of health reform that those countries have.

Point them toward Australia's health system. It has a public plan that everyone can access, but people are free to buy private health insurance (or to be provided with it by their employer).
In most cases when people buy private health insurance, they are eligible for a tax credit of 30% of the cost of that insurance.

But, the public plan is there if that's all they have.

Australia's plan is the closest one that the current proposed legislation wants to implement.