Univeral Health Care good or bad?

I was watching the drama of Natasha Richardsaon play out these past few days. While it seems on the surface to have been done completely by emergency protocol there seems to be some areas that need to be looked at.
Yes, she was watched right after the accident. That was protocol for the ski patrol however, they should have realized that some accident victims appear fine but have an injury that is silent, just as in this case. If it had been her arm or leg and she appeared fine afterwords, it would not have been live threatening to allow her to wait an hour or so back in a hotel room. It is the head injuries that need to be taken seriously. Anyone around a person that has a head injury and seems fine but then begins to complain of headache, fatigue, etc, needs to be looked at immediately, in fact, one should not wait long before taking the person to a doctor or more importantly a hospital for observation. There is something that can be done for the swelling of the brain or bleeding. If left alone, devastating consequences will occur. The fault here falls on the ski patrol for not insisting she get medical attention, and should have in fact called an ambulance to take her to the hospital for observation. It is there duty to be on the safe side rather than to take a chance. Who cares if the person is signed out in fine health a few hours later, at least if they had been injured they would have been in the right place.
The next problem was that at the hospital a CT scan either was not performed or if one was someone did not see or act immediately upon that fact that her brain was quickly being forced upon by the bleeding and swelling. She needed immediately surgery to relieve the brain from the pressure. You mean there was not one doctor on duty that was qualified to do this? Was there not someone there that could have sought help from another hospital for directions on immediate relief from brain pressure?
I begin to wonder what has universal health care done to Canada's hospital's? Are they so far into universal health care that specialties such as brain surgeons are not that easily found? Have all the top specialists gone elsewhere because they would rather work for their worth rather than what the are given by the government? Is that what we in the states are seeking? If so, I am not going to be a fan of universal health care if it means certain death to many people seeking emergency services by specialists.
Natasha was said to be brain dead in Canada and was moved to a New York hospital. She was being moved there so family could say good bye before they pulled the plug. This means that by this point nothing could be done by the U.S. doctors that could have saved her life if she had gotten there as soon as the injury occurred or if a doctor there had flown in to Canada just after the accident. I find it so hard to believe such a precious life has been lost for lack of high tech trauma care.
We should be proud and glad to have the health care we do. The U.S. is a place where high tech care is able to prosper because we have and give doctors the capitalist incentive to achieve high standards of care. While perhaps our health care system has run out of control and it could be curtailed a bit so that it is more affordable we must not forget that what we need to do is to look at putting up competition within the health care field rather than to govern it. Insurance companies are mostly to blame, while they have pushed up health care costs because of there lack of allowing competition to take place, giving doctors and hospitals the ability to charge high prices for procedures, far above the affordable or the reasonable, this led to further escalation of prices. Bring down the costs by charging a reasonable charges for such things as supplies, ie, bandaids, aspirin, etc in hospitals and offices, bring down charges for administering injections, etc. It does not cost 5000 to give an injection, surgery can be done for that. A careful over haul of prices on hundreds and thousands of procedures to a reasonable amount that still allows the doctors or health care centers to make a living, a good living. All this with out univeral health care, and all of it without losing our precious high tech health care.
It may be too late for Natasha Richardson but may a lesson be learned here and may her death not go in vain but may her death lead to a better understanding of what we do not want and an opening into the blessing we have in our hands. We better not lose the good thing we have for something far less.