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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
I can see where you are coming from but I don't necessarily agree with your points. When we rank health outcomes versus what we pay for inputs, Canada ranks dead last when compared with pretty much all of central Europe. The good news is our outcomes are good, the bad news is we pay far more than any of those countries. The only main difference being we support a wholly owned government monopoly on health services whereas Europeans have accepted a mixed private/public partnership.
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Do you have any links to these reports? I'm sincerely curious to read them.
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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
Government run businesses and services all generally lack motivation to eliminate waste. They are all incredibly expensive compared to private endeavors. Our Canadian Health system seems to follow these general rules as well.
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Simply not true. I work for a provincial government and I can assure you that we are constantly under tremendous pressure to increase efficiency (thanks to increasing workloads and stagnant or shrinking budgets.) Governments get elected for delivering more for less.