Wasting time reading about this more, I'm beginning to see a few obvious anti-Canada biases in the article I linked to in the other thread. Here it is here: Click

But, one of the things I have seen people claim about the Canadian system is it's overly burdened with bureaucracy. Here's an example from that article:

Quote:

Sick with ovarian cancer, Sylvia de Vires, an Ontario woman afflicted with a 13-inch, fluid-filled tumor weighing 40 pounds, was unable to get timely care in Canada. She crossed the American border to Pontiac, Mich., where a surgeon removed the tumor, estimating she could not have lived longer than a few weeks more.

The Canadian government pays for U.S. medical care in some circumstances, but it declined to do so in de Vires' case for a bureaucratically perfect, but inhumane, reason: She hadn't properly filled out a form. At death's door, de Vires should have done her paperwork better.



No idea how true that is.