Let's do Canada's system, it works really good... And here is how it is payed for... $100,000 per year income = $30,000 in income taxes!!! Anything over $115,000 = 45% tax Then there is a 15% sales tax!!! 15 cents on every dollar you spend!!! $500 licensing fee on every car!!! Property tax on a 1200 sq ft home = $3,000 There is a huge goods and services tax on homes and cars!!! A Chrysler minivan is $40,000!!! On a car you pay the GST and a provincial sales tax!!! I have heard stories of people miscarrying in waiting rooms and of a man who got a piece of copper in his finger and waited 15 hours to have it removed. All the Doctors and nurses are fleeing to the U.S. because the wages have been capped. If the system is so great why are Canadians fleeing down here for health care? As for the cheaper drugs in Canada... The U.S. does all of the research and development and then Canada puts a cap on the prices and reaps all the profits. They rip Americans off with generic drugs and Americans wonder how they get drugs so cheap? Socialized medicine will never work!!! The main problem with our skyrocketing costs are too many people(illegals, deadbeats,etc.) receiving benefits and not enough paying for them it is very simple. It is just like car insurance. Everytime some moron wrecks and has no insurance we the consumers have to eat his end.