text: Respectfully KZINGA, Canada's system is so bad, only the 48,000 plus rich can afford to escape the rationing of waiting, and the poorer quality of Canadian medicine, as that 48,000+ rich annually flock to the Untied States for treatment. We are the most advanced nation in the world in medicine, leading the next 5 socialist nations combined in advanced medicine. 
  
  Why? Because as Canada, England and others learned, it costs money and must be micromanaged and rationed! Experimental advanced treatments not allowed, go to America if you want that!
  
  Socialized medicine is terrible, it's why they are so far behind America in advanced medicine, and the quality offered here. Ask their rich who can afford to escape their systems, why they come to America if the medicine there is so great!