alt Hacker NewsCanadians don’t get the same care as Americans.
McKinsey did a nice analysis of what is driving US healthcare costs. It compares category spending to OECD then compared price and volume.
Turns out the US pays a bit more for drugs (relative to total spend), a little more for inpatient care and a TON more for outpatient care but half of the increase is volume, not price.
As someone who works in healthcare globally, the difference in US care is stark. Americans get much early and more access to new technology than other countries.
If your lymphoma has returned and you have a 20% of living more than a few years the best care is CAR-T with cure rates close to 60%.
Check out CAR-T rates in the US versus Europe, it’s almost 3x. The US started using it in 2014 and Singapore just started paying for last year (11 years later). Even in Europe adopt only ramped up in the last 5 years.
So yes prices are higher, but a big part is more aggressive care with more expensive treatment.
A good tell that someone is utterly full of shit on Canadian healthcare is that they generalize all of Canada.
“Canadian health care” is not a thing. Each province administers its own completely independent system.
Someone on PEI is in a healthcare system that has as much to do with Alberta’s healthcare system as it does their neighbours in Maine. As a result, anyone referencing Canadian healthcare is talking about a dozen or so unrelated systems that do things very differently. The closest it comes is that there are interprovincial billing systems so you don’t have to do the paperwork to get covered for an urgent visit out of province, and not all provinces are signed on.
You can safely dismiss anyone that has reduced that complexity, or is completely ignorant of it. It’s a great way to tell when a foreigner is spouting talking points they picked up from an unreliable source and did not do even a minimal fact check on. “Canadian health care” as it is talked about in the US media is frequently fiction for propaganda purposes.
Canadians almost always talk about problems within a province. What's happening in the Maritimes has nothing to do with BC.
The feds set a minimum standard for a province to qualify for federal funding, and that's about the limit of their influence.
No idea if the rest of his statement is poorly sourced propaganda as the first sentence.