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Five things most Americans get wrong about Canada’s healthcare system

The Canadian healthcare system is often held up as an example to model or to avoid at all costs in the debates on healthcare in this country. Yet there are a startling number of misconceptions — on both sides of the partisan divide — about how the Canadian health system actually works.

Five things most people get wrong about Canada’s healthcare system

A recent court challenge before the British Columbia Supreme Court threatened to change the rules of the game for the Canadian healthcare system — should the challenge have made its way to the Supreme Court of Canada and found success there.