...Canada doesn't have free healthcare. Or even socialized healthcare. The individual provinces (states) and territories (protectorates) have their own spins on it. In example, In Albertan healthcare, if you have an ear infection, a pharmacy nurse can diagnose that and give you script meds, but in Ontarian healthcare, you need a doctor to sign off on it. It's all done on a state/province-level, not a federal-level.

These various states don't seem to get that you can just HAVE socialized healthcare. Slap a state-level tax on income or good sold, and just... institute it. Well, the people in charge know, but the commoners certainly are purposefully mis-educated about the process. But instead, they get this Obama-nation called Obamacare which is just forcing people at gunpoint to purchase products from private industry.