Mario Goveia wrote: > >If you need any serious surgery in Canada, you go on a >waiting list folks. Those who can afford it come >south for treatment so they can live. >
Actually, if one cares to base one's assertions about health care on objective indicators of the quality of health care provided by any country to all its citizens, as one should, Canada ranks higher than the United States. Canada beats the U.S. on all the relevant public health parameters, namely life expectancy at birth, child mortality, adult mortality, healthy life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy at age 60, and percentage of total life expectancy lost due to poor health. Canada also provides this level of care at lower cost than the U.S. Its total expenditure (public and private) on health as a percentage of the GDP is 9.6% compared to 14.6% for the U.S. You can find all this information at the following link provided by the World Health Organization: http://www3.who.int/whosis/country/indicators.cfm?country=CAN&language=english Cheers, Santosh
