I watch a lot of old movies with my wife. It's crazy. People who were considered fat in the 70s and 80s look perfectly normal now. People who are fat now were darn near circus attractions back then!

A&W is the champion of fast food! Teen burgers are my absolute favorite

Don't forget poutine!

Not true.

Have you ever heard of poutine?

While title is misleading, I will say that Canada and many other 1st world countries have bans on food products that America still allows. Even China bans some of the substances we have in our food.

Ever heard of Simply Sara?

"US patients with private insurance had a similar life expectancy as their Canadian counterparts, whereas Canadians had a 44% lower death rate than Americans on Medicaid"

Seems like an argument against single-payer being the solution here, considering an American single-payer system would be much more like Medicaid than Medicare. But really all this tells us is that poor people whom qualify for Medicaid die sooner than those in higher socioeconomic statuses. Medicaid is available to them after all. And considering that the relationship between healthcare coverage and life-expectancy is second order to many other variables (diet, risky lifestyle, etc) in general, it is not surprising that it is true for those with CF.

Anyway, a lot of the lower American healthcare results can be explained by lifestyle. Just look at the discrepancies between the Southeast and the Northeastern states in life expectancy, even for people with access to insurance and of the same socioeconomic background.

The argument is that there is a diseconomies of scale in providing for 320 million people versus a few million (Canada's single-payer is funded on the provincial level.) If this weren't the case, then Canada would have a national system, which it does not. Americans spend more on healthcare because they demand luxury care (amazing ly comfortable hospitals; end of life care ; etc.) Single-payer systems don't provide this, and it is hard to imagine a national single-payer system which would provide all of the various drugs and benefits needed in the same way that competing insurance companies would. Multi payer in the vein of Switzerland or the Netherlands seems like the way to go.

Yet another reason to move to canada

How is the US's system slower? That is certainly a new criticism, and a bit laughable considering you're comparing it to Canada.

The US's healthcare system is no different from any other private industry. If you can afford it, you can get whatever level of care you want.