Ott, add that to you income tax rate and you'd be up at a rate of a million dollar income earner in Canada.

Marc. Where health care in the US is a profit driven business, you do have access to the latest inventions there is. Build it and they will come as long as they have the money to pay for it. As I have said before, you have the best and fastest health care system THAT MONEY CAN BUY. But not all have access to it. In Canada we have FREE coverage to a good system(though not perfect) and everyone has access to it. The free access sometimes slows the systen down, as some people go to the doctor for a hangnail or a bellyache. Yes, sometimes we have to wait a while for some procedures that may be instant in a profit driven US,but in Canada, if it is urgent or life threatening, you move to the top of the line on the wait list. Your system is best for the rich, ours is best for the not so rich.