Canadian Health Care, Even With Queues, Bests U.S.. While delays do occur for non-emergency procedures, data indicate that Canada?s system of universal health coverage provides care as good as U.S., at cost 47 % less for each person. Canadians live two to three years longer than Americans and are as likely to survive heart attacks, childhood leukemia, and breast and cervical cancer. Deaths considered preventable through health care are less frequent in Canada than in the U.S. . Canada placed sixth among 19 countries surveyed, with 77 deaths for every 100,000 people. That compared with the last-place finish of the U.S., with 110 deaths. The Canadian mortality rate from asthma is one quarter of the U.S.?s, and the infant mortality rate is 34 percent lower.
