http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/23/stuck-in-the-middle/

As Canadians, we love our health care system to death. But in fact health 
care systems around the world?be they publicly or privately funded and all 
the variations in between?are but one part of the complex web of social 
supports and personal and governmental decisions that determine our life 
course. Health care may be a misnomer, and we have an effective?if 
expensive??illness care system? to mend us when we break, as many 
participants noted during the town hall meetings staged this winter by 
Maclean?s and the CMA in Winnipeg and Hamilton. But set Canada against its 
peers?the world?s wealthiest democracies?and we are at best a middling 
performer when it comes to health outcomes. Many blame a waning concern 
for creating the living and working conditions that maintain healthy 
lives. 

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