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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Second worst based on what link? I assume you are citing a study, not your own opinion.
I don't necessarily think the problem is with Canada's SYSTEM, but rather the implementation. There has been a lot of talk this week that health care is 13% of the U.S. economy. It's 10% here. That's still a huge number.
Hospitals, including maintenance costs, are $42.4 billion per year.
Drug costs are $24.8 billion per year.
Doctors cost $18.2 billion per year.
Nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are $13.3 billion per year.
With other expenses, we get up to $142 billion per year. Our per capita spending on health care is $4,400. There are many other countries with single-payer systems that pay much less than that for better service.
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I'm citing what I'm learning in my Health Systems class that I'm taking right now in medical school (Their are tons of studies on this subject matter, just search "health systems" in medline). I'm not going to go through a 100 studies and write out a report for you with references behind every statement. This is an online message board for God sake, take it easy, these are the types of places you are supposed to analyze your opinion. Besides, for every paper saying Canada is 2nd worst in 1 category, you could find 3 others saying the opposite, everybody knows that. It is just about reading through all the material and forming an opinion based on what is said. All I was saying is that it is funny how much some Canadians laugh at the US system, when in reality Canadians have one of the worst healthcare systems themselves.
Canada has a problem with its system and implementation. Right now they graduate way less doctors and try their hardest to make them leave. If you are rich in Canada then it works the best because you get all your regular stuff covered and if you need an emergency treatment that is beneficial to be performed sooner you can just hop on a plane down to the US and get it done.
Realistically no country has 1 ideal health system. Take a look at a country like Taiwan who hired a team of people to go analyze the health systems in the top developed countries and then use that analysis to develop their own. They do have a very good health care system but it definitely has some holes.