Canadian Health Care System

Someone gave me a good-natured poke yesterday, when I observed that the Canadian prices of role-playing games, produced in the United States but marketed in Canada, are inexplicably high. In response, they made a humorous dig at Canada's Health System. Since I know they meant no offence, and were simply trying to inject a bit of humour into the topic (which I appreciated!), i'm not going to belabour this, but merely point out the following.

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, as a percentage of GDP, the following (leading) industrialized nations spend the following amounts on health care.

United States 16.0%

France 11.2%

Germany 10.5%

Canada 10.4%

Sweden 9.4%

England 8.7%

Now compare the life expectancies for those countries.

Sweden 81.4 years

France 81.2 years

Canada 80.7 years

Germany 80.2 years

England 79.7 years

United States 77.9 years

How about infant mortality (number of infant deaths per 1000 live births) statistics?

Sweden 2.5

Germany 3.5

France 3.8

England 4.7

Canada 5.1

United States 6.7