The GOP's Amusing Fixation On Health Care "Choice"

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16. so let's look at the hard numbers...

According to the OECD which calculated the per capita costs in current US dollars... We spend $8714.90 where Canada spent about 50% of what we do: $4289 and THEY COVER EVERYONE.

Obviously Canada has wrung the inefficiencies out of their system while we haven't. Any weaknesses in the Canadian system critics complain about could easily be fixed if they just went to 60 or 70% of what we spend.


numbers here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028683904

Claiming that competition guarantees efficiency is a ludicrous claim. Competition may be a motivator to create efficiencies internally, but it's just as likely companies that have patents use those patents to create virtual monopolies... or as the NYTimes documented artificial hip manufacturers have gone so proprietary that they've created special tools for their products and often company reps sit in on operations. The net result is the replacement hip alone in the US alone costs as much as the entire operation in other nations.