[@Sen] Based on my last link, Ontario Canada's healthcare is 50% percent of their budget...yeah it costs A LOT of money. Healthcare costs a shit load of money. It's just someone else paying for someone else...Well another problem is 47% of america doesn't pay any income tax...and our country is much, MUCH larger in population. And our bigger population does in fact make it a lot harder to make socialize medicine work. (35 to 318 million) So if the average is about 4k, just comparing to our population, our average would pay 36,000 a year. (9 times the population) Sound cheap? (that's just one way it's a bit different.) Also according to this is cost the average family 11 thousands...doesn't sound too cheap to me. ($141 billion on health care for Canada a year.)
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/true-cost-of-health-care-to-average-family-is-11k-per-year-report-1.2525114

The other link had something with Canada's healthcare system, he was born in Canada. And yes, America goes for check up's, even when they feel fine. Precisely why America has the best cancer prevention by a very large margin. A lot of illnesses screw you up, long before you feel any actual symptoms. But I digress.