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Comparison of the health care systems in Canada and the United States are often made by government, public health and public policy analysts. The two countries had similar health care systems before Canada reformed its system in the 1960s and 1970s. The United States spends much more money on health care than Canada, on both a per-capita basis and as a percentage of GDP. In 2006, per-capita spending for health care in Canada was US$3,678; in the U.S., US$6,714. The U.S. spent 15.3% of GDP on health care in that year; Canada spent 10.0%. In 2006, 70% of health care spending in Canada was financed by government, versus 46% in the United States. Total government spending per capita in the U.S. on health care was 23% higher than Canadian government spending, and U.S. government expenditure on health care was just under 83% of total Canadian spending (public and private).

Studies have come to different conclusions about the result of this disparity in spending. A 2007 review of all studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the US in a Canadian peer-reviewed medical journal found that “health outcomes may be superior in patients cared for in Canada versus the United States, but differences are not consistent.” Life expectancy is longer in Canada, and its infant mortality rate is lower than that of the U.S., but there is debate about the underlying causes of these differences. One commonly-cited comparison, the 2000 World Health Organization’s ratings of “overall health service performance”, which used a “composite measure of achievement in the level of health, the distribution of health, the level of responsiveness and fairness of financial contribution”, ranked Canada 30th and the U.S. 37th among 191 member nations. This study rated the US “responsiveness”, or quality of service for individuals receiving treatment, as 1st, compared with 7th for Canada. However, the average life expectancy for Canadians was 80.34 years compared with 78.6 years for residents of the U.S.

The WHO’s study methods were criticized by some analyses. Some argue that Canada has had higher mortality rates for some conditions, such as heart disease, owing to the use of particular medications. Although there is a measure of consensus that life-expectancy and infant mortality mark the most reliable ways to compare nation-wide health care, a recent report by the Congressional Research Service carefully summarizes some recent data and notes the “difficult research issues” facing international comparisons.

The health care system in Canada is funded by a mix of public (70%) and private (30%) funding, with most services delivered by private (both for-profit and not-for-profit) providers.

Through all entities in its public-private system, the U.S. spends more per capita than any other nation in the world, but is the only wealthy industrialized country in the world that lacks some form of universal health care. In March of 2010, the US Congress passed regulatory reform of the American health insurance system. However since this legislation is not fundamental health care reform, it is unclear what its effect will be and as the new legislation is implemented in stages, with the last provision in effect in 2018, it will be some years before any empirical evaluation of the full effects on the comparison could be determined.

Health care costs in both countries are rising faster than inflation. As both countries consider changes to their systems, there is debate over whether resources should be added to the public or private sector. Although Canadians and Americans have each looked to the other for ways to improve their respective health care systems, there exists a substantial amount of conflicting information regarding the relative merits of the two systems. In Canada, the United States is used as a model and as a warning against increasing private sector involvement in financing health care. In the U.S., meanwhile, Canada’s mostly monopsonistic health system is seen by different sides of the ideological spectrum as either a model to be followed or avoided.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by admin - July 4, 2010 at 5:08 pm

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The Future of Health Care?

Or, the alternative to meaningful health care reform
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13 comments - What do you think? Posted by admin - June 11, 2010 at 9:15 pm

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GOP + Health Care = Bullshit

at least there are a couple people on fox that refuse to sink so low as to be retarded by their paycheck…and by a couple i mean geraldo…

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19 comments - What do you think? Posted by admin - June 5, 2010 at 4:36 am

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Gold Ring News ID Card Health Care Bill Obama Bank Mortgage

www.premieres.com http://goldring.wetpaint.com/page/1-The+Game rysa5′s webcam video March 22, 2010, 10:26 AM – webcam video rysa5 Gold Ring News ID Card Health Care Bill Obama Bank Mortgage imigration laws mark of the beast right hand national industry automobile studen loan internet NSA CIA HR3200 Americas affordable healcare choices act of 2009 us congress control communist empire law godless world russia buy sell forehead bible chistian revelations ancient – Once you have felt the rage, the hate, the obsession to find out the truth of this conspiracy to cause agony for profit and selfish purposes you cannot handle it seeing the wounds, the suffering and agony caused by these patrons of death and destruction for profit. You dissociate with reality and become a paranoid schizophrenic. It is here you appear crazy to your peers, where your paranoia takes on seemingly radical, irrational, bizarre, senseless beliefs, and those who used to find you agreeable and nice now find you a dangerous lunatic with perhaps even psychotic tendencies, and that is not all.

You begin to believe the half-baked conspiracy theories about the Illuminati, secret government organizations, and reading other crazy things written by equally crazy people about the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations, Oklahoma City, Iran Contra, WACO, Pearl Harbor, 911, Iraq, UFO’s, HAARP, chemtrails, Crop Circles, Area 51, astral planes, mediums, psychics, Atlantis, other dimensions filled with beings who participate in our reality. At this point you doubt your own sanity and wish you could go back to believing your elected officials, your military leaders, your teachers and/or your religious authorities, but you cannot, and you enter into the period of Galactic Paranoid Schizophrenia. At this point you are the most dangerous as you have gained enough information to be not only dangerous to others but to yourself as you are not capable of understanding the totality of what is occurring to your world.

You begin to drift further from reality, floating in a plasma of other souls trapped in the search for answers within a box with no exit. You now see aliens and hear voices and find it hard to believe in any messages you receive from your former reality. There is a gift in this place if you can be still, quiet and meditate to find that peace. But in most cases the pain of realizing that the world is being dominated by an alien race of cold blooded reptilians who have in their power the ability to destroy the planet in apocalyptic proportions, or to slowly poison it, eliminate 90% of the present population so they can safely enslave those who survive the planned pandemic holocaust or nuclear annihilation or weather catastrophe and/or some other planetary process of extermination of people who are unnecessary to the survival and profitability of the Black Alliance.

At this point you go into a Catatonic Universal Depression where the hopelessness, despair and feeling of the void begins to overtake you as you slip into unconsciousness and the suppression of all emotions. In this stasis of feeling the images that are broadcast through the media propaganda channels hit your unfeeling eyes and your stone heart with no effect. You are dead to the world, yourself and to the life itself, betrayed by those who you trusted, lied to by those you gave power to and conspired against in secret by those who said they would protect you from the evil they created to make you weak.

Now you are lost in the wilderness with no compass and no help with only the last few breaths of air within your shallow lungs that vibrate rapidly and inconsistently as this state of total denial of reality is your first choice and the path out of darkness is impossible. In total darkness the void covers you with its dull blackness and you prepare to be assimilated into nothingness where you reach the end. Your anger ends and slowly your courage returns. A spark of light, an idea comes into your head and you back away from the abyss and see that as long as you breathe and want something you can be…

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25 comments - What do you think? Posted by admin - May 8, 2010 at 3:06 pm

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How to Fix Health Care Without Spending a Dime (Part 1 of 2)

Here are ways to deal with most of the things that are wrong with our health care system, none of which will cost the taxpayers any money at all. (Please watch both parts before commenting.)

Restore consumer-controlled health care: http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/114

Make your health insurance more affordable: http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/113

Protect and Improve Health Savings Accounts: http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/116

End onerous health care regulations: http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/105

Sources:

Parente, S. et al, “Consumer Response to a National Marketplace for Individual Insurance,” Final Technical Report for DHHS Contract HP-07-024, http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/08/consumerresponse/report.pdf

Brook, R. et al, “The Effect of Coinsurance on the Health of Adults,” R-3055-HHS, http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/2006/R3055.pdf

Ruwart, Mary J., “Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression” (Second Edition)

Bovard, James, “Shakedown: How the Government Screws You From A to Z”

Angell, Marcia and Arnold S. Relman. “Prescription for profit,” The Washington Post 2001 Jun 20; Sect. A:27.

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25 comments - What do you think? Posted by admin - April 6, 2010 at 6:33 pm

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Zombie Public Option Puts Stake In Heart of Health Care Costs?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

“The Colbert Report” this week found something a little ghoulish about the resurrection of the public option just in time for Halloween, though, as I argue in this video, the public option may be necessary to kill the real monster threatening the United States: rising health care costs.

The short clip from “The Colbert Report” I use in this video comes from a segment broadcast on Comedy Central on October 29, 2009, currently available in full at http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/253997/october-29-2009/threatdown—halloween-edition

The image of the bar graph comparing US health care spending to the spending in the other 29 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a public domain image available at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/International_Comparison_-_Healthcare_spending_as_%25_GDP.png

The original source of that graph (along with a lot of other great information) is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/CEA_Health_Care_Report.pdf

The images from the 2004 article in Health Affairs titled “How Does The Quality Of Care Compare In Five Countries?” come from the document available online at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/23/3/89

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