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Letter: Canadian health care is good model for U.S.

23 September 2009 12,045 views 181 Comments

Letter to the Editor in the Seacoast On-line, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

On a recent trip to Canada, I spent some time reading The Globe and Mail. In an article on Page A17 of the Sept. 14 issue, economist Eugene Lang and health policy adviser Philip DeMont compare the Canadian (medicare) and U.S. health care systems.

They observe that “the hysterical tone of the anti-medicare rhetoric among Republicans would make one think Canada is North Korea.” Lang and DeMont go on to discuss the “inconvenient truth” that “Canada’s approach to providing citizens with universal health insurance is superior to the U.S. model of private insurance.”

They proceed to compare the two systems using four indicators of health care efficiency: life expectancy, infant mortality, cost differences, and percentage of citizens covered. On each of these measures, Canadians enjoy clear advantages over their U.S. neighbors.

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