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This edition of
How Good Is Canadian Health Care?
provides answers to a series of questions that are important to
resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends
its health care policies. The study is strictly comparative and
examines a wide number of factors for the member countries of
the OECD in arriving at the answers to the questions posed. In
this study, we primarily compare Canada to other countries that
also have universal access, publicly funded, health care
systems. The study's focus, therefore, is not whether we should
"abandon the key elements of Canada's compassionate approach to
health care delivery," but how we organize to achieve it. To
answer this crucial question, which is also the focus of the
current debate about health care reform in Canada, we examine
whether other industrialized, universal-access countries have
implemented those policies that are at the centre of the health
care debate in Canada: policies that have been shown to
produce, at lower cost, superior access to, and outcomes from,
health care than Canada's policies do.
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