It May Not Be Perfect, But Canada's Health Care System is Better Than Ours

One fallacious argument I hear time and again with regards to the inferiority of Canada's health system is that they have long waiting periods for many services. While true, this ignores the fact that overall Canada has a better quality of health, which puts such waiting times into proper context. It's the logical equivalent of an advertisement that touts a single aspect of their product as superior, but ignores all the others. Even worse such a stilted view completely glosses over that they spend so much less per capita on health care than we do (10% vs 17% of GDP and their GDP per person is about 17% less than ours, making our per capita expenditure roughly twice as much). If we adopted their system, funded to our levels, it would blow the doors off our current health care standards. This means their methods are superior to ours, but does not mean we can't explore alternatives. Since almost all modern nations beat the tar out of us on health care there are a lot of sources for inspiration.