Here's my source: Social and Cultural Planning Office, The Hague,
September 2004

NOTE: The SCP used primarily OECD and World Bank data.

Let's check out the data, and then reach a conclusion based on
data,
shall we? In each category, Canada is mentioned first, then the USA
(as
in, Canada vs USA).

Total current expenditure on health ca percentage of GDP, 2000:
8=2E5%
vs 13%

Americans spend more on better, more available health care, and they
do it
voluntarily.

Voluntarily? Like they have a lot of choice.

Total current health expenditure per capita, 2000: 2400=80 vs
4100=80

Cheapskate Canadian health care system.

Or a more efficient one.

Out-patient expenditure as percentage of gdp: 2.7% vs 5.9%

Americans get better care on demand.


Quality of the care delivered is comparable.

In-patient expenditure as percentage of GDP: 2.8% vs 3.9%

Canadians get shorted when they go into the hospital because funds
are
short.

Inpatient ca beds per 1000 inhabitants, 2000: 3.9 vs 9.8

Three times as many beds available in the US.

Total health employment per 1000 inhabitants, 2001 (FTE): 37 vs 38

U.S. Healthcare is much more efficient, as it provides much better

The quality of the care delivered is comparable in both countries. And
the waiting times for primary care in both countries are also similar.
The differences are primarily in specialty care, which has longer
waiting times in Canada, on average.

more
available service with virtually the same percentage of health care
workers.
Canadian health care is stuffed with straphangers and sinecured
government
employees.

Canadian health care workers don't work for the government. The
government
is merely the insurance provider.

The US health care system also leaves 40 million people without health
insurance.

Stephen Gallagher