With apologies to Yakov Smirnoff.
In Canada, the government buys you health insurance.
In America, the government will soon make you buy health insurance!
In Canada, all people have health insurance, and it costs less.
In America, less people have health insurance, and it costs more!
And people are arguing that covering everyone will, contrary to Canada's model, cost even more!
In Canada, all you have to do to get health insurance is be born a Canadian.
In America, it's your obligation to determine before you're born if your parent's employers provide family benefits.
In Canada, 2 cents out of every government health insurance dollar goes towards overhead.
In America, this is called "government wastefulness."
In America, 30 cents out of every private health insurance dollar goes towards overhead (and profit.)
This is called "the efficiency of the private sector!"
In America we're told that auto workers must surrender some of their health insurance benefits. This is called "competing in the global economy."
But in the rest of the global economy, much of health insurance is paid for through taxes, which in Canada actually cost car companies less than providing private sector health insurance to their workers in America!
In Canada, if your doctor says you need a specialist to look up your ass, you have a specialist look up your ass.
In America, this is called "inserting a bureaucrat between the patient and his doctor."
In America, if your doctor says you need a specialist to look up your ass and your insurance company refuses, you can kiss your ass good-bye.
This isn't called "inserting a bureaucrat between the patient and his doctor!"
In Canada, if you have a great idea for a business, one that will provide a superior product or service to consumers, and provide jobs for people, you can start one without worrying about how you, your family, and your employees will receive health care.
In America this is called "socialism."
In America, if you have a great idea for a business, but you're dependent upon your current employer for you and your family's health insurance, you bury your dream and continue to kiss your boss's behind.
This is called "honoring America's entrepreneurial spirit!"
And finally...
In Canada, the government buys your pharmaceuticals.
In America, the pharmaceutical industry buys your government.
What a (fucked up) country!