"todd" wrote in message
conveniently dropped the part about the Canadian system being bigger "a
much
larger system" than private insurance in the US.

Proportionally, it is bigger because it's country wide. And, it's not the
same as your medicaid which only treats the poor as long as they don't have
any assets. Canadian health insurance supplies full medical access to anyone
who is a Canadian citizen. Yup, it's not a perfect system by any means, but
that's discussion for another time.