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- From: clarke@watson.ibm.com (Ed Clarke)
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- Subject: Re: Canadian healthcare system
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.165740.29981@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:57:40 GMT
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- |> >hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- |> >>There are several things wrong with it, and it is not all that much
- |> >>cheaper than the cost in the US. One generally agreed problem is that
- |> >>many "standard" procedures are not done in Canada, and while the Canadian
- |> >>plan often picks up the costs, it does not pay the travel, and it does
- |> >>not help defray the development costs, which US care does. For another,
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- My understanding is that some "standard" things (MRI, CAT) require very
- high priced equiptment. Canadian doctors don't have the hardware available
- because their government won't pay for it. Here, everybody and his brother
- buys the hardware and then looks for patients to keep it busy.
-
- Sort of like making your unix programmers use 110 baud teletypes in Canada,
- and using Cray Y/MP's as terminals in the US. Both extremes are wasteful -
- of people (MD training) in Canada, and equiptment (US).
-