Absolutely true. Most Canadians are honest enough to tell you that “our health care system isn’t free, we pay a tremendous amount in taxes for it”.
Canada’s governments spend around 7-8% of GDP on healthcare. The gov’t portion of US health car spending pre-Obamacare is almost 8%. So actually the two countries are almost the same in terms of what the gov’t spends on healthcare. Canada has single payer but still another 3% of GDP is spent privately on healthcare for things like dentistry, drugs, etc. So Canada with the same amount of resources per the economy covers everyone while the US just covers the poor and elderly.