Quote Originally Posted by Hurin_Rules
New study points to Canadian health care as part of the cause:

Well then they would be wrong - this particular statistic is the most likely cause.

Quote Originally Posted by article posted by Hurin
About 21 percent of Americans said they were obese, compared with 15 percent of Canadians. And about 13.5 percent of the Americans admitted to a sedentary lifestyle, versus 6.5 percent of Canadians. However, more Canadians were smokers -- 19 percent, compared with about 17 percent of Americans.
Then you might want to pay attention to the sentences just below that one...

Quote Originally Posted by article
About 42 percent of the Americans rated their quality of health care as excellent, while 39 percent of Canadians did.

Also, 92 percent of American women said they had a Pap test within the last five years, while 83 percent of Canadian women had. But Canadians have lower death rates from cervical cancer. "It's a little hard to interpret," Woolhandler said.
It seems that the Canadian Health Care system is not the cause of Americans being sicker then Canadians. Most likely its the factor that our obesity rate is higher along with the more sedentary lifestyle makes for a bad combination for one's health.