I live in canada too mandy and let me tell you we may not have to pay for health coverage but believe me we get what we pay for...IE: if you dont have insureance you take a back seat to someone who does and in hospitals when your laying in the hallway waiting for a doc and a nurse comes along and decides you re fine out you go...my sister stopped breathing one night and had to be taken by ambulance...the two people from he ambulance were the most beligerent and careless people I have ever seen...they insinuted that because my sister smokes that she ws in some way less of a priority...and...then when they got her to the hospital they dropped her off the gurney while transferring her to another one...my sister suffered brain damage as a result of this she has no long term memory now and guess what the freaking lawyers told my brother in law...because they didn't have enough of a retainer they wouldn't get anywhere suing the ambulance service or the freaking hospital...what I m trying to say here is that canada isnt all that for health care and yes there is a wait for major surgury and yes you get bumped if someone with more money applies...I am getting all worked up here so I will end this...one last thing...if the health care is so bad in the states why are all the doctors who are trained here in canada heading south...money...thats why...