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Passage of the $940-billion overhaul of the U.S. health-care system is a milestone that will change the face and character of the country 8:15 AM EDT 45
- Conrad Black: A second opinion on Canadian and American health care
- Most Canadians have watched with astonishment, and some with smugness, the fierce and tortured American debate about health-care reform. There are some important lessons in it for Canada. It has been a Canadian truism for decades that an American who suffers a medical emergency and does not have proof of medical insurance or a credit card will not be picked up by an ambulance. Of course, this is nonsense: All Americans receive medical care. But uninsured people who are not wealthy can be impoverished by a serious medical problem, and the indigent will be treated only until their condition is stable, and then released. They are entitled to Medicaid, which the government provides to everyone who is poor, but it is often an overstressed, understaffed medical care system by the standards of advanced countries that have universal health insurance. Still, medical care for rich and middle-class Americans truly is the best in the world, which is why three quarters of Americans like the system as it is, as they are fully insured and their employers pay for all of it. Many American hospitals are world-renowned. It is the leading country for medical innovation, and people with serious medical difficulties who can afford it go to the United States for treatment. Over $7,000 per capita is spent on health care annually in the United States — about $2.4-trillion — over $3,000 per capita more than in any other country, including Canada.
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