On the outside looking in on Canadian health care

The Canadian Health care system as compared to the US by Uwe Reinhardt, a leading adviser on health care economics and professor of political economy at Princeton University read more ....

Canadians spend half as much per capita on health care as we do in the U.S., and yet if you go up there, sure you have to wait for some MRI image or for some heart procedures, but overall the system produces very good health outcomes. People are more satisfied there with their care than Americans are with theirs. So if you diagnosed it like a physician, you’d give that system an A and you’d have a hard time giving more than a B to ours.