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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
In my Economics and Government course I took a few years back in University we did a comparison of Canadian, British and US health care systems.
Off the top of my head I think in the US they spend almost double the percentage of GDP that Canada does on health care for a crappier system. Britain has a public/public system which sounded fairly good albeit with some drawbacks. Canada's public/private system also sounded good. The US's private/private system sounded like a real hotbed of corruption of interests with Doctor's wanting to prescribe more expensive treatments in order to get paid more.
Universal health care should save Americans money, money which presumably would be redirected in the economy and probably help the economic downturn.
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I agree that our system is far better than the American one, but even the Supreme Court of Canada agreed it was cruel and unusual punishment forcing people to wait 2 years to get a hip replacement.
If we could solve the wait times issue, our system would be golden, me thinks.
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