Originally Posted by EonBlue

The US may spend more per person on health care but Canada spends more as a percentage of it's annual budget. Some provinces here are already spending 50% or more of their annual budgets on health care and that percentage keeps going up every year.

And yes we may receive more benefits than you but those benefits are rationed because of increased demand for a "free" commodity. The availability of benefits isn't much use if you can't receive them in a timely manner. There is a reason why many people here choose to go to the US to pay for treatments.

Also our technology and availability of new drugs lags behind yours by several years. That's another reason why many people here go to the US for treatment.

Here's another consqequnce of rationed health care - this one from the UK:

Don't treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors



Then it's only a matter of time before some bureaucrat decides to add other "unhealthy" lifestyles, as determined by them, to the list.

How scary is that?