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Bomber · 09-05-2006, 07:58 AM

Canada Trumps U.S. in Healthcare, Harvard Study Says

Americans are less healthy than Canadians and have poorer and less accessible healthcare despite spending about twice as much on it per capita, according to a study published by three Harvard Medical School scientists last week.
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Himmelstein, however, said he believes that American satisfaction stems from what he calls the “Iron Curtain". "Americans are not allowed to see what’s going on in the rest of the world” for fear that they would demand another system, he said.

Himmelstein said that administrative costs accounted for one cent of every dollar spent on healthcare in Canada, but 15 cents for every dollar in America.

“Americans are getting extraordinarily poor value for money in our healthcare system,” he said.

The results are based on the Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health, a random phone survey conducted in both countries in 2002 and 2003, and were published last Wednesday in the American Journal of Public Health.

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