Hey, Jack..You might appreciate this, along with a few others:

Was listening to an author on the radio, T.R.Reid, talk about his travels all over the world, using and grading health care. It shouldn't come as a surprise that compared to all other developed countries, we come off the worst. Not only do we spend twice as much as every other country, but even more telling we do very poorly regarding outcomes. This should also not be a surprise, as thanks to our bad idea of making "for profit" insurance companies our prime provider of health care, and we are the only country that does so, the priority is driven by profit, not successful outcomes, and certainly not prevention, which would obviously result in much less need for costly medical procedures, and therefore vastly lower costs and most important, less profit for insurance corporations. Until all Americans understand that health insurance companies bring nothing to the table, contribute nothing to our health care, and in fact, are solely responsible for our grossly overpriced and heartlessly predatory health care system.

Number of American deaths last year due to being unable to afford, or being rejected by insurance corporations:   22,000

Number of bankruptcies because a member of a household got sick:   800,000

Similar deaths in Canada: 0

Similar bankruptcies in Canada: 0

But then the Canadian government is not owned by giant corporations.

GfS