[quote=@Sen] But I'd take wait times over crippling debt if I need medical care any day. [/quote] Here is a fun fact; my parents had to take a mortgage on their house to pay for my sister's surgery, and that was before Obama was president. [quote=@Dinh AaronMk] After all I don't think that opinion stats for a relatively unchanged system in Canada is going to mean much in nine-years. It's not like statistics for something like teen pregnancy where the percentages can change depending on how much you produce a constant and fresh Public Service campaign about it or how well you fund sex-education. Socialized healthcare would be for them something that's so fundamental the only immediate opinion changes might be whether or not its over or under-funded. [/quote] That is what I was thinking. I picked this study because it was just that - a study, no frills or people trying to prove anything. I couldn't think of any good confounds between then and now that would make this study inapplicable. The Canadian system isn't new, so you couldn't explain good will in 2007 as just being the new car smell. The only two things that could possibly confound it is a conservative government that was in power in Canada between those times, and the fact that healthcare has become such a major conversation in America. But both of those things if they were to have any effect should make their system more popular, not less.