“Canadian healthcare has year-long waits! Socialized medicine kills people!”

What You Say

Canada spends roughly half per capita what the U.S. spends while covering everyone — wait times vary by procedure and province, but Canadians live longer and are less likely to go bankrupt from a hospital bill. America's uninsured and underinsured delay care too — they just die quietly without a queue statistic. Every OECD system rations somehow; the U.S. rations by price and zip code. The question is whether rationing happens at the billing desk or the scheduling desk.