I sure hope the Canadian relatives of a NCM spouter are pretty healthy. It is no exaggeration to say that persons wait months for routine surgeries in the Canadian health care system. Not elective surgery either. What we have here is not perfect, but go to a Seattle hospital and count the number of Canadian cancer patients being treated. Also, take into consideration that there are only 35 million Canadians. The population of the State of California alone is 38 million. The population of the U.S. is over 318 million. It is never wise to compare apples and oranges.