Well yeah, try going to a for profit hospital in one of your southern neighborly equivalent states. Sure New York may have a good private hospital or two, but Oklahoma City or Dallas sure as shit doesn’t (apologies if I mischaracterized y’all Albertans, I’m just thinking fairly populous petrostate with a high agricultural theming).

Medical privatization will kill some of you. Ask Americans how we know. But there is one piece of advice we got from a neighbor a long time ago that we wish we’d heeded that you may need to hear: paying higher taxes so everyone gets good free healthcare is quickly personally worth it. Wise folks that told us that, really wish we’d listened