Canada+Healthcare+vs+US+Healthcare

Comparing the American health care system against the Canadians' is almost an outrage, due to the results. The economic crisis is critical at the moment, and still the US is forced to pay nearly twice the cost on health care than Canada. 2006 per-capita spending for health care in US was $6714 compared to the Canada cost of $3678. While Canada only needs to spend an estimated 10% in their GDP, the United States has to spend an around 15.3% GDP on health care every year. 70% of the health care in Canada is funded by their government, while only 46% of the health care in the United States is funded in comparison. U.S. total government spending per-capita is 23% higher than Canada, along with the US government expenditure on health care just under 83% of total Canadian spending; including public and private. Life expectancy is longer in Canada, which is an estimated 80.34, with also a high percentage of the population is satisfied with their health care. For the United States, they have a lower life expectancy rate, which is an estimated 78.6, along with a much noticeably less percentage in concerns of health care satisfaction. United States rates number 37 in health care across the world, with not as high mortality rates as Canada. 70% funded to public for health care Canada, and private is only 30%. US spends more per-capita than any other nation in the world, but is the only wealthy industrialized country in the world that lacks some form of universal health care.

Canada’s health care system looks fully after 32 million people, costing roughly in comparison to the private-sector health insurance companies make in profits looks after 32 million people costs roughly what the private-sector health insurance companies make in profits in the United States looking after less than half the population for excessive premiums. Canada does not reject people with existing pre-conditions, which the US tends to do with all of its existing health insurance programs. Not only that, but the Infant Mortality rate is much lower in Canada than it is in US. People also have a higher outcome with major illnesses, such as cancer and heart disease, compared to the US. Though sometimes an emergency may be neglected in the US, for Canada this is never the case. No one in Canada goes broke either at the cause of medical bills, whereas the ARP estimates that around half of personal bankruptcies are easily made through medical bills. Compared to the US system of health care, the Canadians are also allowed to choose their own physicians or even seek multiple options. The Canadian doctors are better trained than the American ones, and physicians in Canada must study for at least a year until they can be able to practice in Canada. Canada also sells drugs for a much cheaper price than the US. The patchwork quilt system puts most veterans in the US at high risk, as the young are handed over to private companies but the elderly are insured by the government.