For cost, it varies by province, because health care is a provincial responsability. Overall though, Canada's entire public medical system costs less per capit

For cost, it varies by province, because health care is a provincial responsability. Overall though, Canada's entire public medical system costs less per capita than America's public system (medicare + medicaid + whatever else they're including). http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/23/chart_us_government_spends_more_on_health_care_than_the_canadian_government.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/23/chart_us_gove... I checked the stats for my province, Quebec. In 2013, costs were a bit under $4000 per capita for the public sector. So that's about $333 per month. Per province breakdown stats: https://secure.cihi.ca/free_products/4.0_TotalHealthExpenditureProvTerrEN.pdf https://secure.cihi.ca/free_products/4.0_TotalHealthExpendit... As for replicating it....I'd wager that it couldn't be done nationally. It could possibly be done in a small state. It probably could have been done back in the 1950s, but there's been so much drift in the two systems since then that it would be difficult to imagine implementing it. Because there'd be pretty wholesale change: no private health insurers. Also the fact that medicare + medicaid cost more than Canada spends already doesn't bode well. But that could just be status quo pessimism.