Arthur, I was going to write that if you remove the urban sinkholes from the equation, the US statistics would look better - then I remembered Gwen's introduction to Canada.
They landed at the City of Quebec and took the train down to Toronto. She expressed amazement that the train was cleared along the way so it could be cleaned (maybe back then British trains weren't so often cleaned). But the City of Quebec concerned her most as the train traveled past a forest of tar paper shacks. She wondered what kind of country she had come to where people lived the winter in such poor accommodation. So, Canada may (still?) have her problems, but surely not to the degree of the US. Harry ******************************************** Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net ******************************************** -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Futurework] Private health care (was E.European...) To add to the discussion. This from the Wall Street Journal (Nov. 12, 03), citing an OECD document. The US spends more on health as a percentage of GDP (2.7 percent in US vs. 2.1 percent in Canada) and has more doctors, (2.7 practicing physicians per 1000 people in the US vs. 2.1 in Canada) Yet lives are shorter (76.8 years in the US vs 79.4 in Canada) -----Original Message----- From: Harry Pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:38 AM To: 'Brad McCormick, Ed.D.'; 'pete' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Futurework] Private health care (was E.European...) Brad, I've already told you that you are too good to be anxious about small things. At the end of 20 years, your doctor will probably retire, so you will have to get used to another. Groups of doctors are better than single doctors, for they can fill in for each other. There's always a doctor there when you need him. The difference between entities such as Kaiser and (say) the Canadian National Health Service, is that Kaiser has to compete. If standards go down they will lose members to a competing service. Standards have apparently dropped in the UK even though they continue to pour money into it. You can choose a private doctor and I understand a lot do, but when the doctor feels you need hospital, you go into a NHS hospital (if you can get in). Harry --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.541 / Virus Database: 335 - Release Date: 11/14/2003 _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
