This year’s joint report by US and Canada statistical agencies shows that average healtcare service delivered and healthcare perceived quality is the same. One BIG difference though is that the dispersion of health status is much wider in the state. The common hypothesis is that a significant minority get no prevention or get treatment to late, being uninsured, leading to worse diseases.

Do you remember what percentage of the middle class vs the poor in the US are not insured?

Etymology: French r�ublique, from Middle French republique, from Latin respublica, from res thing, wealth + publica, feminine of publicus public — more at REAL, PUBLIC

1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government c : a usually specified republican government of a political unit
2 : a body of persons freely engaged in a specified activity
3 : a constituent political and territorial unit of the former nations of Czechoslovakia, the U.S.S.R., or Yugoslavia

Canada, being a part of the Commonwealth but having an independent parlimentary system qualifies.

Americans. Try looking out a window instead of a mirror.