When I was diagnosed with prostate cancer is the US (15 years ago) it took a little over a month between diagnosis and surgery, which was successful.
If you want to look at aggregate objective measures, people with serious diseases like cancer, heart disease etc. live longer on average in the US than they do in Canada.
The US health care system is far from perfect but there are simply far more medical resources available per person in the US to draw on than in Canada.
Canada does spend less money per person on health care though.
