Canada is not in such bad shape. According to the 2007 CIA world fact book they have a longer life expectancy than both the UK and USA. Socialism is not good for freedom in any case, but we can be thankful that we are at least not going the full British route yet. (though doubtless the far left would be happy to see us with a system like Cuba’s)
Life expectancy metric drags for us includes crime violence and unfortunately our young soldier’s deaths.