KevinMD September 24, 2022
An excerpt from A Short Primer on Why Cancer Still Sucks.
The United States has the world’s most expensive health care system. It spends about twice as much each year on every American as the Canadian system spends on Canadians. Per capita, the U.S. spends far more than Canada on drugs each year. The U.S. also has far more health care capacity, with more specialists, nurses, hospital beds, CAT scanners, MRI scanners, PET scanners, and radiotherapy treatment units per capita than Canada. This higher capacity can be useful, but it costs a lot of money.
The higher health care spending in the U.S. is primarily due to a much higher price for every medical procedure. It isn’t due to more...
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