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They still offer optional private health insurance plans to top up the universal heath care insurance system. While the health care system in Canada covers basic services, including primary care physicians and hospitals, there are many services that are not covered. These include things like dental services, optometrists, and prescription medications.Private health insurance plans are usually offered as part of employee benefit packages in many companies. They usually include vision and dental care. Alternatively, Canadians can purchase insurance packages from private insurance providers.Public universal health insurance in Canada goes back to shortly after WWII, at which time health insurance was not a big business for the insurance companies. In 1947, the government of Saskatchewan introduced a province-wide, universal hospital care plan. By 1950, both British Columbia and Alberta had similar plans. The federal government passed the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act in 1957, which reimbursed one-half of provincial costs.Saskatchewan introduced a universal, provincial medical insurance plan to provide doctors' services to all its residents in 1962. The federal government passed the Medical Care Act in 1966, which offered to reimburse, or cost share, one-half of provincial and territorial costs for medical services provided by a doctor outside hospitals. Within six years, all the provinces and territories had universal physician services insurance plans. See: Canada's Health Care SystemThe United States still hasn’t gotten to the point Canada was at in 1966. It remains the only developed country which has no universal health care insurance system, and also has by far the highest health care costs in the world.

Mainly the British!After the Louisiana purchase by the US in 1806 the border was established at the 49th parallel,between the USA and British North America!But much of which was controlled by the Hudson bay company in which the British refuse them(the Hudson bay company) to except an offer from the USA to purchase the region and allowed only the Canadian offer, otherwise most of modern day Alberta,Saskatchewan and Manitoba would be in the United states!

This is a huge topic but I will try to fill in a few thoughts on why. I am a Canadian who lived in the USA for five years before returning. While in the USA, I was asked about the differences and tried to think about it a bit.I think that it is a mix of how the two nations started and the resulting immigration patterns.The USA started in revolution from a government that they neither respected nor liked. They then formed a government that had a light touch on the population with minimal powers and minimal offerings to the people. The people who stayed wanted as little government as possible. In other words, government was considered to be part of the problem.Canada was born of the people who did not have a problem with that same government. First, the parts of North America that did not revolt remained part of what would become Canada. The Maritime Provinces and Quebec (Lower Canada). Upper Canada was largely populated in the beginning by United Empire Loyalists who wanted to stay in the British Empire and in many cases were forced or harassed out of the USA. The colonial governments were considered to be part of the solution for these people.Slavery was abolished in Upper Canada was abolished in 1793 and in all of the colonies in 1833. Racial tensions were lower (but existed) than in the USA where a war was required to finally abolish slavery. (Having the crap beaten out of you is not a good way to persuade that treating former slaves like citizens is a good idea.) This led to a greater level of acceptance of "different" people in Canada than in average in the USA. (Since the Northeast states abolished slavery voluntarily and much earlier than the south, there seems to be greater acceptance and more "liberal" attitudes there)Immigrants had to choose between the greater government involvement in Canada and the lesser in the USA. Those more comfortable with government would tend to go North and less comfortable, South.Immigrants were treated differently. The USA was the great "melting pot" so everyone tried to be "American". Once everything is melted together it is all the same so differences were the exception rather than the norm.Canada looked on immigrants as part of a "Mosaic" whose individual pieces were different but combined to create the nation of Canada. Differences were more of the norm than might be found in the USA. If you live with people who are different all the time, encouraged to be different and proud to be difference while still being a part of the whole, acceptance becomes easier.Inter-migration also contributes to the differences. People from Canada who want the less involved government / Wild West attitude moved to the USA and Americans who wanted (or were comfortable with) greater government involvement would move to Canada.The true left wing nut jobs (by American standards) of Canada started out on the Prairies where I grew up. People were light on the ground and had to deal with a great deal of powerful influences from central Canada on banking, railways, manufactured goods, and control of who sold the grain and other products that were produced. One of the popular was a co-operative enterprise. This included Co-op stores that were able to better negotiate with Eastern and American suppliers, Credit Unions that were able to compete with the national (eastern based) banks and the Wheat Boards that had wheat in volume so were able to better negotiate with purchasers.Canadians, starting on the prairies, became co-operators rather than rugged individualists. They formed political parties like the CCF in the 1930's that formed the first social-democratic government in North America (Saskatchewan 1944). These parties felt government had a responsibility to the people to provide services like Medicare, welfare, old age pensions, unemployment insurance.etc. Subsequent governments either inherited these programs and kept them or instituted the programs to keep the social-democratic parties (now generally under the banner of the NDP) out of government.Social programs became the third rail of government (touch and die) so the programs themselves remain and have become part of the Canadian identity. The strength of the left in Canada pulls the country in a liberal direction while the strength of the right pulls back. The balance has ended up somewhat left of the USA.The real reason that it ended up that way? It works.Canada and the USA - two nations separated by a common language.