Canadian Healthcare: ineffective and costly

Dave Pollard remarked in his weekly roundup:

See How Patients Rate Doctors: It’s brand new, but this site allowing North American patients to rate their physicians has great promise. It will be interesting to see if the AMA/CMA try to shut it down. Thanks to my work colleague Carolyn Lonsdale for this link and the one that follows.

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…And See How Patients and Doctors Rate Their National Medical Systems: A fascinating 7-country international survey (excerpt in graphic above) suggests that European healthcare is better than North American by a mile, though Germany’s healthcare system is in sudden and sharp decline. And, for Canadians, a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that, while Canada’s healthcare system is far from perfect, switching to the even more flawed American system would be a disastrous mistake.

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