I live in Dover, Delaware, a very small community with a population less than 30,000. Yet we have our own neurologist, who runs a professional association that includes seven or eight M.D.s and a PA. He owns or leases a mobile MRI unit with an imaging specialist that travels between his various offices in the small towns of downstate Delaware. When I needed an MRI I got it locally within two and one half weeks, and had the results days later.
Another cost of the Canadian health care system lies in the way it drains resources from other institutions, especially the military. Canada now relies fully on the United States for national defense, which is a fact of which Canadians should be heartily ashamed. The tax burden necessary to support the health care system saps the economy of productivity and resources that aren't missed because they're never seen. The entire thing is a fiasco, which Americans should fight tooth and nail to avoid.