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Originally Posted by RainMaker
MRIs are used much more liberally here. A doctor who owns his MRI machine is 4 times more likely to order the scan than one who doesn't. That's more a factor of doctors abusing the system in place and trying to squeeze as much as they can out of insurance comapnies and Medicare.
It's also silly to compare countries as Canada is 1/10th our size and much healthier overall.
The opinions you stated come from a conservative think tank that pushes free market ideas. Not exactly the most unbiased source in the world. As for return on investment, Canadians live longer than us (by 3 years) and have a much better infant mortality rate. It's tough to argue our health care industry is better when everyone else is healthier than us.
I lived in Canada and it's a pretty nice system. Has some problems but for the most part functioned well. The way they setup their clinics is great but they need some work with how they handle specialists.
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I get that they aren't unbiased. You are the one who brought up Canada, saying they weren't taxed back to the stone age. I'm just pointing out why that is the case, and we would be taxed much higher then they are.
They are healthier, they don't have the technology we use and people demand and they don't have some of the demographic issues we do.
Can you even compare the life expectancy? What's the murder rate in Canada? How about deaths in automobiles? While Canada overall might be 3 years higher, white Canadians and white Americans are within about 1 year. You want to play the ethnicity card when making obesity excuses but want to ignore ethnicity when comparing life expectancy.