Originally Posted by AmeliaG

Unless you've never worked for a living, of course you pay for the Canadian healthcare system, but you pay with taxes, whether or not you are sick, and it is universal. It cuts out the type of insurance which inflates healthcare costs for everyone and is a better system, but it is not a free system.

Yes, I know private healthcare options spring up in places with universal public ones, but they are right-priced from not having patients be desperate the same way as in the US system.