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Originally Posted by opendoor
Is there any data that suggests that privately run health care is actually more efficient cost wise? The United States has great health care (if you're properly insured), but it costs almost twice per capita what Canadian health care does and it's one of the things bankrupting their country. It's hard to see the efficiency there.
Perhaps the public/private systems in European countries are a model we should emulate, though we're not really too different as it stands now.
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Depends on your definition of 'efficiency' I guess.
Nobody in the US dies on a waiting list. But it costs more to get state of the art treatment.
Nobody flies from the US to Canada to recieve treatment, but plenty go the other way.
How do you define 'efficient' health care?
Also, there are very few similarities between European health care, with plenty of private insurance and delivery, and Canada, where it is illegal to have private insurance and delivery. We are similar to Cuba and North Korea only.