A Comparison of the U.S. Health and the Canadian Health System Name Institution Date Every country has tried much to improve their health care services in the last forty years. In Canada and U.S. health care have been made a basic for everybody though accessing the services has not been fully achieved to date. In Canada, basic health care has been accomplished through provision of coverage through a government- sponsored system where each province administers her own system. By doing this, the Canadian government has made the health care a universal for all her citizens irrespective of the age, race, gender or occupation. There are no preexisting medical conditions that can prevent an individual from accessing the services. Insurance cover is for all unlike in U.S. where when an individual turn twenty six, the he or she is not legible for the insurance medical care for the family. In U.S. every individual pay about 17.4 of the gross domestic product to insurance in a single pay system compared to the relative cheaper pay in Canada where the individual pay just 11.4 of the GDP (Esmail Walker, 2005). According to the last figures of 2009, the Organization for Economic Cooperation an