http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649#_ednref1 Fact No. 2: Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians Fact No. 4: Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Fact No. 5: Lower income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Fact No. 6: Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the U.K. Fact No. 7: People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K.
http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2007/09/natural-life-expectancy-in-united.html If you've sorted the data in the dynamic table, you find that without accounting for the incidence of fatal injuries, the United States ties for 14th of the 16 nations listed. But once fatal injuries are taken into account, U.S. "natural" life expectancy from birth ranks first among the richest nations of the world. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Michael Grant<mgr...@modus.bz> wrote: > > Canadians have lower rates of in-hospital mortality (1.4% Canada vs. 2.2% > U.S.). > > And here's some other interesting comparisons: > > Average in-hospital treatment costs are nearly twice as much in the U.S. > ($20,673 U.S. vs. $10,373) > > There are 9.9 qualified nurses per 1000 population in Canada as compared > to 7.9 nurses per 1000 population in US (so you get a highly personalized > care!) > > Overall satisfaction with the surgical experience is similar in both > countries (85.3% U.S. and 83.5% Canada). > > The number of acute care hospital beds in Canada is 3.0 per 1000 > population as compared to 2.8 in US > > Administrative costs consume more of the total cost of treatment in the > U.S. (38.2% of total costs in the U.S. vs. 31.7% in Canada). > > In-hospital cost of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) in the > U.S. is 82.5 % higher in the U.S. than in Canada. > > The mortality rate for end-stage renal disease is 47% higher in the U.S. > than in Canada. Adjusted monthly costs of treatment are $503 higher in the > U.S. > > Fifty-seven percent (57%) of U.S. patients have reprocessed dialyzers used > on them, compared with 0.0% of Canadian patients. > > Compared with the American counterparts, low-income Canadians have a > significant survival. > > Advantage for 13 of the 15 kinds of cancer studied. > > One-year mortality rates following myocardial infarction are virtually > identical for both countries (34.3% U.S. vs. 34.4% Canada). > > Canada has a higher rate of annual bone marrow transplants (0.89 per > 100,000 population vs. 0.81per 100,000 in the U.S.) > > Canada has lower mortality rates for patients 65 and older three years > after both low-mortality (18.52% U.S. vs. 15.31% Canada) and > moderate-mortality (19.19% U.S. vs. 16.63% Canada) procedures. > > Survival rate for four disease condition is higher in Canada than in > America: > o Colorectal cancer: 113 Canada vs. 108 U.S. > o Childhood leukemia: 118 vs.110 > o Kidney transplants 113 vs. 100 > o Liver transplants 123 vs. 102 > > The prescription drugs an ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:302735 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
