I get that. I don't think less of Americans but I see differences in not only the social net but the value, the cost of higher education for instance where a student medical specialist will owe 5 or 600 grand in tuition. The costs are a boon to a system that traps doctors into a net of liabilities of all kinds, including being beholdened to insurance and pharma. Insurance companies extract the most money they can from regular folk. The outrageous cost of University tuition and meds in the States is extremely lucrative to Big Insurance. The fact that you could study in a top flite medical.faculty in Canada for a fraction of that in the US is a part of the social net that spells; "affordability". That affordability is less of a strain on the system in salaries. Where bham1984 is right however is that meds in Canada are second in cost to the US because of our proximity.
There are programs like subsidized daycare which may become a federally mandated norm that exists in Quebec where parents pay 8$ daily fees. Taxes are higher here but the net does protect the less fortunate and the economic disparities are not as flagrant.