Health Care

[bcholmes]

Here's yet another study of cost differences between Canadian and US health care.

According to the authors [of one of the papers], if the U.S. were to adopt Canada's single-payer system, it would save approximately $286-billion a year in administrative costs ($982 per capita). The thorny problem of 43 million Americans without health insurance -- whom it would cost about $69-billion a year to insure -- could be eliminated, with money to spare.

(She adds, politically: this is the healthcare that Harper wants more corporate involvement in).

One line of argument that isn't pursued in the article (and which, sadly, I can't cite any research on): a government that must pay the health care expenses of its citizens necessarily takes a different view of such things as food testing and administration.

Comments

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Have not followed your link yet, but I wanted to say that I'd been wondering about that.

As an extension, I got wondering how far the money would go if the Canadian employers who pay dental insurance would all put that money into the same pot - would it be enough to cover dental care for all kids?

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

necessarily takes a different view of such things as food testing and administration

Considering how politicized was the "food pyramid" I learned in grade school, that's just another reason we in the US won't have decent single-payer health care.