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News Medical Life Sciences, Aug 12 2009
As members of Congress return to their states and districts to debate the merits of the Democrats' proposals for health care reform, critics of the proposals may repeat the phrase used by some Republicans, newspaper editorials and bloggers that 'the American health care system is the envy of the world."
If so, they should read the results of a recent Harris/Decima poll in Canada that found a 10-to-1 majority of Canadians believed their system was "superior" to the U.S. system. They might also note that a 70% majority of Canadians thought their system was "performing well"; and that a majority favored an expansion of public sector health care (i.e., "government-run" health care in the current debate) over private sector health care.
These are some of the results of a recent Harris/Decima telephone survey conducted between June 4 and 8, 2009 by Harris/Decima among 1,000 Canadian adults.
The main findings were:
The Results of Other Harris Surveys in Other Countries
- A 70% majority of Canadians thought their system was performing either "very well (12%) or "fairly well" (58%). Only 28% thought it was performing "not well at all" (9%) or "not that well" (19%).
- Most people (55%) favored an expansion of the public sector. Just over a quarter (27%) of Canadians thought that the Canadian system had got the balance between public and private sector health care right. Only 12% favored a tilt towards the private sector.
- An 82% majority of Canadians believed their country's health care system was superior to the U.S. system. Only 8% thought the U.S. system was superior.
Another Harris Poll report, published July 2, 2008, compared the popularity of the health care systems in 10 countries. The United States system was the most unpopular. It reported that 33% of Americans felt there was "so much wrong with the health care system, we need to completely rebuild it." In the other nine countries between 9% (in the Netherlands) and 20% (in Italy) felt this way. Only 12% of Americans thought that "the system works pretty well."
U.S. health care system - “envy of the world”? not in Canada!
As members of Congress return to their states and districts to debate the merits of the Democrats’ proposals for health care reform, critics of the proposals may repeat the phrase used by some Republicans, newspaper editorials and bloggers that ‘the American health care system is the envy of the...www.news-medical.net
Record Wait Times for Care in Canada - Realities of Single Payer
Canadian patients waited longer than ever in 2021 for medical treatment, according to a new study released by the Fraser Institute. The annual study reports a median wait time of 25.6 weeks—the longest ever recorded. It examines the total wait time faced by patients across 12 medical specialties...
realitiesofsinglepayer.com
Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2021 Report
www.fraserinstitute.org
25 weeks for healthcare, that is fun......Shit people in this country get mad if they have to wait 2 weeks...