Canadian Health Care We So Envy Lies In Ruins, Its Architect Admits http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=299282509335931
What would drive a man like Castonguay to reconsider his long-held beliefs? Try a health care system so overburdened that hundreds of thousands in need of medical attention wait for care, any care; a system where people in towns like Norwalk, Ontario, participate in lotteries to win appointments with the local family doctor. > BTW here's an interesting New England Journal of Medicine on the costs > of Health Care administration between the US and Canada: > http://www.pnhp.org/publications/nejmadmin.pdf > > to quote from the summary: > > In 1999, health administration costs totaled at least $294.3 billion > in the United States, or $1,059 per capita, as compared with $307 per > capita in Canada. After exclusions, administration accounted for 31.0 > percent of health care expenditures in the United States and 16.7 > percent of health care expenditures in Canada. Canadaâs national > health insurance program had overhead of 1.3 percent; the overhead > among Canadaâs private insurers was higher than that in the United > States (13.2 percent vs. 11.7 percent). Providersâ administrative > costs were far lower in Canada. > Between 1969 and 1999, the share of the U.S. health care labor force > accounted for > by administrative workers grew from 18.2 percent to 27.3 percent. In > Canada, it grew > from 16.0 percent in 1971 to 19.1 percent in 1996. (Both nationsâ > figures exclude insurance-industry personnel.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:263014 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
