I doubt I could get an appointment with my PCP in under four days. Any procedure? There never seem to be appointments available less than two months in the future. I suppose if i had Bill Gates' [[or even Jimmy Kimmel's) money, and was able to pay list price out of my pocket, I could get in right away, but that's not for us mere mortals [[kind of like Republican tax cuts - they're only for people whose AGI includes the word "million").

Forget Canada for a minute - life expectancy in the U.S. is the lowest in the entire developed world. Now I'll grant some of this is because of our wide-open spaces, where the nearest hospital might be two hours away, but still, we [[either directly or through lower salaries and wages) pay huge amounts for health care that's not all that great. The best U.S. hospitals are among the best in the world, but on the whole the U.S. healthcare system is at best mediocre.