Following-up on Galen’s entry on Canadian vs US health care, comes an article from the Globe and Mail that discusses a study comparing satisfaction with both systems:
Americans are more enthusiastic about their free-market health-care system than Canadians are about their publicly funded medicare system, but Canadians’ care needs are actually better met than those of their U.S. counterparts.
The main beef with the system in the U.S. is the cost, while in Canada, the principal complaint is the wait for services. Spending on health is $4,270 (U.S.) per capita in the U.S. and $2,250 in Canada. That’s 13 per cent of the gross domestic product in the U.S. and 9.1 per cent in Canada. Despite the big difference in costs, there are only minor differences in use of services, and in health outcomes, the survey found.
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- The cost of "free" health care
- Where do the Canadian political elite go for health care?
- Female physicians and the Canadian doctor shortage
- Scalpel takes on health care
- A Canadian speaks: "Americans are lucky to have their current health care system, and should do everything in their power to preserve it"
- Canada’s single-payer: "They think it needs to be torn to the ground and built back up"
- Canada vs US healthcare
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Quelle domage! you don’t get many comments, I see … this is the first medical weblog I have read in a long while. Thanks for at least being somewhat objective – when they stick to medicine, the other bloggers are good, but when they get into the social side of medicine, they are appalling. Aren’t there any US doctors left who care if people don’t get care if they’re not insured? I am a practicing radiologist’s wife who is of course also a patient, and while I can afford to pay for my care, I find it offensive that there is only a free-market approach to medicine by the doctors who write on the Net. Maybe government health care is not so great as in Canada, but it’s better than NO care, which does happen in this country, and I’m glad you’re honest that despite their problems, they do get better care in Canada.
regards, a doctor’s wife
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