Here is from a letter I got from a Canadian friend. As your friend and someone who lives with the Sweet housewives seeking real sex dating idea Canada health care plan I thought I would give you some facts about this great medical plan that we have in Canada.. First of all: 1) The health care plan in Canada is not free. We pay a premium every month of $96. for and I to be covered. Sounds great eh? What they don't tell you is how much we pay in taxes to keep the health care system afloat. I am personally in the 55% tax bracket. Yes 55% of my earnings go to taxes. A large portion of that and I am not sure of the exact amount goes directly to health care our #1 expense.. 2) I would not classify what we have as health care plan, it is more like a health diagnosis system. You can get into to a doctor quick enough so he can tell you "yes indeed you are sick or you need an operation" but now the challenge becomes getting treated or operated on. We have waiting lists out the some as much as 2 years down the road.. 3) Rather than fix what is wrong with you the usual tactic in Canada is to prescribe. Have a pain here is a to take not what is causing the pain and why. No time for checking you out because it is more important to move as patients thru as possible each hour for Government reimbursement 4) Canadians do not have a family Doctor.. 5) don't require emergency treatment as you wait for hours in the emergency room waiting for treatment.. 6) -'s dad cut his hand on a power saw a few weeks back and it required that his hand be put in a splint to our surprise we had to pay $. for a splint because it is not covered under health care plus we have to pay $60 for each visit for him to check it out each week..