The land between the 2 oceans was referred to as Canada. Actually, three oceans. The Arctic Ocean as well. LOL.

Socialized health care. Works for me. Break a leg. Go to any hospital. They fix it. No invoice. Go home. Simple. Only issue is the wait times, especially in emergency, for non life threatening ordeals.

I was recently diagnosed with MS. I don't think anything is wrong with me however the inital emergency room diagnosis, the xrays, catscans, doppler in the neck, ultrasound of my heart, optical nerve testing, mris, everything, but everything did not cost me a red cent.

When one requires an operation, not one red cent changes hands. And you can go anywhere you want. Added costs would include semi-private or private rooms in hospitals (no cost if you have added insurance coverage), medications while not in the hospital, and parking.

I think it is great.

As I said, wait times in emergency rooms can be lenghty, awaiting non life threatning operations are lenghty as well, and if not lucky, MRI wait times, and the availability of topnotch medical equipment is not as widely available as in the US. Don't get me wrong, we have the latest equipment, but we also have alot of people waiting for the same services.

Also, immigrants from 3rd world nations tend to take up valuable space and time. Even if their kids have the sniffles, they will spend time in the hospital awaiting a doctor. No problem, they get free lunch vouchers from the government and they get to eat that day. The mother, with her seven noisy, pesty kids running around causing havoc. Then, they get to go home in their government subsidized Dodge Caravan (used albeit), all for choosing Canada as their new home. And don't foget the no cost baby deliveries, in nice clean modern hospitals. They are so excitied, they tend to have at least 10 kids each.

Regardless of the problem, regardless of your financial state, regardless where you have immigrated from, all your health care, hospitals, doctor visits, specialists visits, are all free of charge, sort of speak. Dentists cost $$$. Eye exams for non-kids cost $$$. Cosmetic surgery cost $$$.

My father in law had very bad arthritis in both his hands. They were actually curled up, and painful. 2 operations later, they look and work fine. His cost=0$$$$.

Socialized health care system. Advantages and disadvantages. The only thing we look at here in Canada is that the nurses are not walking around with invoices everytime you are given a pill, or xray. The bad-wait times.

Hope this answers your queastion.