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The authors’ main data set used is The Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health (JCUSH). Collected between the fall of 2002 and spring of 2003, this data set includes 3,505 Canadian and 5,183 American individuals.
Basic Statistics
U.S. | Canada | |
Life Expectancy (Male) | 74.8 | 77.4 |
Life Expectancy (Female) | 80.1 | 82.4 |
Infant Mortality/1000 live births | 6.8 | 5.3 |
Obesity Rate (Male) | 31.1 | 17.0 |
Obesity Rate (Female) | 32.2 | 19.0 |
HC spending as % of GDP (2005) | 16.0% | 10.4% |
We can readily see that the U.S. has worse life expectancy, infant mortality rates, and obesity rates that Canada, yet pays more for these relatively poorer outcomes. Canada is clearly better…right?
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The Americans presently have 55 million people without any health care coverage at all and another 20 million in a high state of anxiety as the Republicans look at cutting Medicaid to control expenditures.
A different slant on the numbers; that 55 million is included in the GDP which means they are saying they are spending on 55 million people which they are not. Their figures are much worse!
The Conservatives and WRP are proposing we liquidate our houses and property to pay health care costs and then, they will kick in with some minor help.
They will pattern this after the existing social assistance in Alberta which is the lowest in Canada.
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