Single payer is socialism. Period.
And in Canada the wait times are both inane (ten month wait for prenatal care) and lethal when cancer patients die before their treatment is scheduled.
And that their health care sucks is best illustrated when no end of their political leaders have to come to the USA for treatments they can’t get in Canada on a timely basis.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/02/23/Canadian-premier-defends-US-surgery/33941266929997/
True. when state leaders, who can afford the very best, go outside their own system for medical care .... well, what does that tell you?