Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Canadian Health Care System

    Someone gave me a good-natured poke yesterday, when I observed that the Canadian prices of role-playing games, produced in the United States but marketed in Canada, are inexplicably high. In response, they made a humorous dig at Canada's Health System. Since I know they meant no offence, and were simply trying to inject a bit of humour into the topic (which I appreciated!), i'm not going to belabour this, but merely point out the following.

    According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, as a percentage of GDP, the following (leading) industrialized nations spend the following amounts on health care.

    United States 16.0%
    France 11.2%
    Germany 10.5%
    Canada 10.4%
    Sweden 9.4%
    England 8.7%

    Now compare the life expectancies for those countries.

    Sweden 81.4 years
    France 81.2 years
    Canada 80.7 years
    Germany 80.2 years
    England 79.7 years
    United States 77.9 years

    How about infant mortality (number of infant deaths per 1000 live births) statistics?

    Sweden 2.5
    Germany 3.5
    France 3.8
    England 4.7
    Canada 5.1
    United States 6.7
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