Feel free to get back on topic folks. If this is nothing but 'America rules', 'No Canada rules', 'You're lame', 'No you're lame!'.... there is no point in leaving it open.
Joffen, for all intents and purposes, you seem unable to back up the meat of your claim.
Is Canada's economy in the toilet and the US's better? Does the US spend less per capita on health care, with a better outcome (ie., life expectancy, infant mortality, ER wait times, surgery wait times)? Does the fact that the US DOES have socialized medicine (even Eagle has pointed out the poor get treated), not factor in?
Answer some of those questions with some cold hard fact rather than just sabre rattling.