Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

U.S. scores dead last again in healthcare study

U.S. scores dead last again in healthcare study | Reuters
The United States ranked last when compared to
six other countries -- Britain, Canada, Germany,
Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, the Commonwealth Fund report
found.
...

The report looks at five measures of
healthcare -- quality, efficiency, access to care, equity and the
ability to lead long, healthy, productive lives.

Britain, whose nationalized healthcare
system was widely derided by opponents of U.S. healthcare reform, ranks
first in quality while the Netherlands ranked first overall on all
scores, the Commonwealth team found.

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Priority flu shots are for high-risk not high-income patients;government must act now on private clinics

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Healthcare around the World

BBC NEWS | Health | Healthcare around the world

Healthcare figures
US, UK, France and Singapore are compared in this news item.

Here are the Canadian numbers compared to the US

Expenditure on health % GDP (Wikipedia - 2005): US: 15.2% , Canada: 9.8%
Expenditure on health per capita (Wikipedia - 2005): US: US$6,347 per capita, Canada: US$3,463 per capita
Expenditure from the private sector (Wikipedia - 2005): US: 55% , Canada: 30%
Live Expectancy (Wikipedia - CIA World Factbook 2009 estimates): US: 78.11 (ranked 50th on this list) , Canada: 81.23 (ranked 8th on this list)
Infant Mortality Rate (deaths per thousand)  (from Wikipedia - CIA World Factbook 2009 estimates): US: 6.3, Canada: 4.8
Population without healthcare: US: 15.3%, Canada: 0%




Saturday, June 27, 2009

Debunking myths abou the Canadian healthcare system

Debunking Canadian health care myths

Comparing the Canadian and the US systems...