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We also, as I said Canada's system is so good that rich Canadians and their important politicians come to Cleveland or Miami to have their surgery while everyone else waits in line. Canada did not have MRI available to their citizens in 1992 when the US had it in the early 80s. Canada's system isn't free, it's paid for by the taxes taken from every citizen, and like the European systems, they depend on the innovation of the US Healthcare system to move forward because capitalism drives innovation while government and socialism stifle it.

A good quarter of my mother's family are living in Canada as part of a large Jamaican diaspora that emigrated in the 70s.

 

A few of them are quite wealthy.  None of them line up at the border to get their chance to pay for the "best healthcare in the world".  They stay at home and outlive us.

 

Our system is never going to get better by perpetuating the myth that other countries do it worse, because, y'know, they're like socialist.  The ACA is nothing like what they have in Canada anyway.  The ACA is an insurance program, not a healthcare program.  Much of what we've discussed in this thread has at least been addressed by the ACA, if not in the most perfect of methods.  Our imperfect healthcare system had been ignored for at least 10 years before the ACA, and if tweaked, could improve the US system to really actually be the envy of the world.

 

Right now, it's not.

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