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- From: "ronald hands" <ronald.hands@canrem.com>
- Subject: i want a german stand
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.4263.11084@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "ronald hands" <ronald.hands@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: sci
- Date: 15 Nov 92 09:56:44 EST
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- In article <1992Nov10.231040.8808@kestrel.edu>, king@reasoning.com (Dick
- King) wrote:
-
- DK>If the reason our health stats look bad is poverty, rather than a pathology in
- DK>our health care system, i would not want to "fix" it with a socialized medicine
- DK>system, any more than i would want to treat a septic patient with a fever by a
- DK>cool shower, even though that's an appropriate treatment for a heatstroke
- DK>patient sharing a few superficial symptoms [feeling of weakness and high body
- DK>temperature]
-
- A story that ran in our local (Hamilton, Ontario) newspaper last week
- made some interesting comparisons of U.S. and Canadian health care. It
- was reporting on a conference, the annual meeting of the Health of the
- Public group, held at McMaster University's faculty of health sciences.
- Seventeen health science schools are involved in the Health of the
- Public network; McMaster is the only Canadian one.
- The main speaker, Dr. Gord Cuyatt, clinical epidemiologist and
- biostatistician at McMaster, said, as summarized in the story: "...no
- matter how you study it, Canada's health care system is better. We
- live longer -- with an average life span of 77.1 years against the
- American 75.3 -- and have a lower infant mortality rate -- 7.9 baby
- deaths per thousand, compared to 10.4 in the United States."
- The U.S. privately run system costs 13 per cent of its Gross National
- Product, while Canada's costs only 9 per cent. Administration accounts
- for about 24 per cent of American health-care costs but only about 11
- per cent in Canada.
- "With Canada, we have the most socialized health-care system in the
- world," he said. The system is government-run; patients face no
- deductible, no up-front payments and no pay-per-use medical costs.
- And of course everyone is covered.
- "There are some waiting lists in Canada," Dr. Guyatt said, addressing
- the major criticism of Canada's system by American politicians.
- "But there are no waiting lists for emergency surgery, some in urgent
- surgery but most are for elective surgery."
-
- -- Ron
- ronald.hands@canrem.com
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