Constantly comparing Canada’s health care system to the U.S. blinds us to best practices in other countries that might be a starting point for reform
There is a reflexive retort whenever Canada ’s failing healthcare system is criticized – at least we’re better than the United States and its profit-before-patients system. That lazy comparison obscures an uncomfortable truth: most developed countries do a better job at providing health care to their citizens than does Canada , often at lower cost.
Australians smoke and drink more than Canadians, yet their rates of diabetes and obesity are lower and their average life expectancy is 83.3 years, while Canada’s is 81.6. Overall, 71 per cent of Australians say they are satisfied with their access to health care, while only 56 per cent of Canadians say the same.Australia number one among 10 developed countries that it studied in its latest annual report. Canada ranked seventh, while the United States came in a very distant 10th.
The federal government in Canada provides health services to First Nations communities and to Inuit. The federal government of Australia has a similar responsibility for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Both governments have done a poor job, with Indigenous Australians and Canadians suffering higher rates of disease than the general population, and having a substantially lower life expectancy.
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