Nope and nope. But one thing I'm certain of the average Canadian has a better life quality than the average american.
Yeah, that's why they come to the US for medical treatment.....
How many ? Compared to the millions of americans that cross both borders for affordable treatments and cheaper medicine. Heck some even go overseas for that.
Talk to us about life span, crime, drug epidemics, safety net, education how the US lags behind canada pls.
1. Canada pays more out of pocket than the US pre-Obamacare
Out-of-pocket spending as a share of total expenditure on health, 1980-2000 http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/5/53/22364122.pdf (table 4)
http://www.oecd.org/els/healthpoliciesanddata/22364122.pdf
Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland.
2. How to judge healthcare:
a)
life expectancy: many people die for reasons that can’t be controlled the medical profession, such as auto accidents, murder, etc., and once you factor out care crashes and homicides, the US ranks number one in worldwide life expectancy!
“One often-heard argument, voiced by the New York Times' Paul Krugman and others, is that America lags behind other countries in crude health outcomes. But such outcomes reflect a mosaic of factors, such as diet, lifestyle, drug use and cultural values. It pains me as a doctor to say this, but health care is just one factor in health.
In The Business of Health, Robert Ohsfeldt and John Schneider factor out intentional and unintentional injuries from life-expectancy statistics and find that Americans who don't die in car crashes or homicides outlive people in any other Western country.
And if we measure a health care system by how well it serves its sick citizens, American medicine excels.
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She cites a study by Professors Ohsfeldt and Schneider at the University of Iowa, which shows that,
if you leave out people who are victims of homicide or who die in automobile accidents, Americans live longer than people in any other Western country.
http://www.creators.com/conservative/thomas-sowell/medical-care-facts-and-fables.html
You're really not very well informed, are you.
I bet you're one of the dolts who love using the word 'propaganda,' huh?