Published on September 21, 2009 at 5:13 AM
Bloomberg reports that allegations that the Canadian health care system offers inferior treatment, rationing and long lines are wrong, according to wide-ranging and long-standing research.
Bloomberg: "The allegations are wrong by almost every measure, according to research by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and other independent studies published during the past five years. While delays do occur for non-emergency procedures, data indicate that Canada's system of universal health coverage provides care as good as in the U.S., at a cost 87 percent less for each person. … Canadians live two to three years longer than Americans and are as likely to survive
heart attacks, childhood
leukemia, and breast and
cervical cancer, according to the OECD, the Paris- based coalition of 30 industrialized nations" (Wechsler, 9/18).