There are all kinds of health plans, Jack, and maybe your company does not provide one of the better ones. Difficult to compare one company's health plan and what it provides to a Universal Health Plan which I assume Canada provides its citizens.

Before I retired, I worked for a non-profit professional theater company. Hardly a company that would be classified as a "fat cat" corporation. As an employee, I paid a reasonable monthly amount and my company paid the balance.

My wife was hospitalized for twelve weeks with eight of them in intensive care. The hospital bill was over one million dollars. My company's health plan, an HMO, plus Medicare paid the whole amount. I think that's pretty good. I assume from what you write, the government of Canada would have picked up the whole cost. Right? I'm not that familiar with the plan in Canada.

DougR