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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.
Since the United States and Mexico do not, we often ignore these
countries in the comparisons made. 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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