Debunking Canadian health care myths - The Denver Post - The Diigo Meta page

• 10 Jul 09
  

  Craig Magtutu

  healthcare politics medicine

  • In actuality, taxes are nearly equal on both sides of the border.
  • More than 31 percent of every dollar spent on health care in the U.S. goes to paperwork, overhead, CEO salaries, profits, etc. The provincial single-payer system in Canada operates with just a 1 percent overhead
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  • • Ten percent of Canada's GDP is spent on health care for 100 percent of the population. The U.S. spends 17 percent of its GDP but 15 percent of its population has no coverage whatsoever and millions of others have inadequate coverage.
    • While HMOs and other private medical insurers in the U.S. do indeed make such decisions, the only people in Canada to do so are physicians.
    • There are no requirements for pre-authorization whatsoever. If your family doctor says you need an MRI, you get one.
    • There are no waits for urgent or primary care in Canada. There are reasonable waits for most specialists' care, and much longer waits for elective surgery.
    • Most physicians in Canada are self-employed. They are not employees of the government nor are they accountable to the government. Doctors are accountable to their patients only.
• 05 Jul 09
  

  Daniel Carver
• 30 Jun 09
  

  Ian Smith

  health alternativehealth

• 29 Jun 09
  

  Phil Maxwell

  healthcare politics Canada

• 28 Jun 09
  

  elayne li
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  daniel kurylo
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  C. Davis

  healthcare Canada myths politics debunking

• 27 Jun 09
  

  Doug Peterson

  As a Canadian living in the United States for the past 17 years, I am frequently asked by Americans and Canadians alike to declare one health care system as the better one.

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  ken meece

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  Becky Minx

  As a Canadian living in the US for the past 17 years, I am frequently asked by Americans and Canadians alike to declare one health care system as the better one. Often I'll avoid answering, regardless of the questioner's nationality. To choose one or the other system usually translates into a heated discussion of each one's merits, pitfalls-

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  slandsma

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• 22 Jun 09
  

  Hubert Ho

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