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Aug 4, 2022 · Part 1 of this series documented Canada’s health-care spending compared to 28 other universal health-care countries and found that Canada ranked second-highest in terms of health care spending as a share of the economy (after adjusting for age).
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Aug 5, 2021 · The report, released on Wednesday by the Commonwealth Fund, ranked 11 high-income countries on key health-system measures, including equity, access to care, affordability, health-care...
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Expenditure on health care Canada spends more on health care than the majority of high-income OECD countries with universal health-care systems. After adjustment for “age”, the percentage of the population over 65, it ranks second highest for expendi-ture on health care as a percentage of GDP and eighth highest for health-care
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- Figure 1. Canadian Rank For Medical Resources
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This relative scarcity of medical resources also extends to key diagnostic equipment such as MRI machines (which Canada, after adjusting for age, ranked 21st out of 24 countries) and CT scanners (22nd out of 26). Compared to Canada, Germany reported nearly three times as many MRI units (ranking 3rd) while Australia had five times as many CT scanner...
Given these results, two things are clear. First, there’s a scarcity of key medical resources in Canada compared to peer countries with universal health care. Second, there’s an imbalance between how much we spend on health care and the value we receive in return. Evaluating health-care performance is complex; no single measure or indicator tells t...
Canada is among the highest spenders in the OECD. Canada is above the OECD average in terms of per-person spending on health care. Among 38 countries in the OECD in 2020 (the latest year for which comparable data is available), spending per person on health care remained highest in the United States (CA$15,275).
Jan 2, 2023 · As the premiers and the federal government continue to battle over health-care funding, leading doctors and experts say that while more government money is needed, the way health care is...
Oct 21, 2021 · Canada spends $ 265.5 billion per year on health care services. Of every dollar, 70 per cent is public while 30 per cent is private (out-of-pocket spending or private insurance). This has been remarkably consistent for decades. How does this compare internationally?
