Let me tell you: I believe you're correct, but your argument is largely beside the point. Canadians with money can and often do access private health care - in the United States. The Canadian public has been resistant to private sector encroachment in the health care sphere but I suspect this has more to do with culture than anything else. Canadians have long held a skeptical view of the behavior of corporations and the wealthy, believing that if the door is further opened to private sector health care the well-off will quickly ditch their (already tepid) support of and for the public system and undermine its viability. Mainly, the elites won't permit their taxes to pay for it. The concept of 'noblesse oblige' that exists many European cultures has never been a characteristic of North America's, including Canada's, economic environment.