Senator Bernie Sanders (I - Vermont) scheduled a visit to the University of Toronto in late October. On his agenda are visits to healthcare facilities and a convocation “to see what we can learn from the Canadian system,” Sanders says. Canada’s publicly funded and administered healthcare system has received much acclaim in the United States, with some associating the country with model health policy. If healthcare is a right, like Sanders suggests, then Canada’s free universal system seems ideal. Neglected in this enthusiasm are the hidden yet very concrete costs of wait times in Canadian healthcare. Sometimes we deceive ourselves into thinking something is free when we have actually paid for it. At many universities, for example, full-time students may enroll in a meal plan. When students pay for a meal plan, the school allots them a certain number of meals or credits that may be spent at certain campus locations, like the cafeteria, coffee shop, or spirit wear store. A