May I point you to some statistics:
http://www.who.int/whr/2005/en/index.html
Canada -
http://www.who.int/whr/2005/annex/in...ountry_a-f.pdf
United States -
http://www.who.int/whr/2005/annex/in...ountry_p-z.pdf
CANADA
2003
Life expectancy - Male:
78 Female:
82
2002
Total expenditure on health as % of gross domestic product:
9.6
General government expenditure on health as % of total expenditure on health:
69.9
Private expenditure on health as % of total expenditure on health:
30.1
General government expenditure on health as % of total government expenditure:
15.9
UNITED STATES
2003
Life expectancy - Male:
75 Female:
80
2002
Total expenditure on health as % of gross domestic product:
14.6
General government expenditure on health as % of total expenditure on health:
44.9
Private expenditure on health as % of total expenditure on health:
55.1
General government expenditure on health as % of total government expenditure:
23.1
Say what you like... we pay less and live longer and our coverage is universal. What galls you all is that it *is* working. And that's OK. You stick to your system and we will stick to ours.
Good luck with all that.