Dr. Krahn practiced medicine in Winnipeg, Manitoba from 1964 to 2002. During that time he saw the health care system transition from a government-insured service to a government-managed system. This happened in the early 1970’s.

Krahn has been concerned about the negative aspects of government-managed care from the very beginning. So much so, that in 1977 he ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the provincial election as an opponent to Premier Ed Schreyer in the Rossmere constituency in North Kildonan.

Krahn’s concern is that with a government-managed health care system the institutions depend on an annual provincial grant as their only source of income. To balance the budget each year administrators have to either ration services or dilute the quality of services. There is never enough money. That is why we have such long waiting lists in Canada, overcrowding (“hallway medicine”), and an insufficient supply of high-tech diagnostic and treatment resources.

From 2002 to 2010 Krahn practiced with the Mayo Health Care System in Minnesota. The US offers an excellent health care system for those over the age of 65 yrs. There is comprehensive coverage, portability from state to state, universality, no questions about pre-existing conditions, no favored network of providers, no rationing and no medical bankruptcies. It is exactly the way it was in Canada in the 1960’s.

Krahn advocates a single-payer government-insured health care system from the cradle to the grave in both Canada and the US.