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- From: jsparkes@bnr.ca (Jeff Sparkes)
- Subject: Re: Canadian healthcare system
- In-Reply-To: clarke@watson.ibm.com's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:57:40 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:32:37 GMT
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- >>>>> On Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:57:40 GMT, clarke@watson.ibm.com (Ed
- Ed> Clarke) said:
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- Ed> |> >hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: |> >>There
- Ed> are several things wrong with it, and it is not all that much |>
- Ed> >>cheaper than the cost in the US. One generally agreed problem
- Ed> is that |> >>many "standard" procedures are not done in Canada,
- Ed> and while the Canadian |> >>plan often picks up the costs, it does
- Ed> not pay the travel, and it does |> >>not help defray the
- Ed> development costs, which US care does. For another,
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- Ed> My understanding is that some "standard" things (MRI, CAT) require
- Ed> very high priced equiptment. Canadian doctors don't have the
- Ed> hardware available because their government won't pay for it.
- Ed> Here, everybody and his brother buys the hardware and then looks
- Ed> for patients to keep it busy.
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- Actually, CAT scanners aren't generally in short supply in Canada.
- It's just that not every hospital has it's own. They can share...
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- Jeff Sparkes jsparkes@bnr.ca Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa (613)765-2503
- You know, a muffin can be *very* filling.
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