In Switzerland, the health-care system features managed competition among insurance companies and health-care providers.
Health Care
In most countries with universal health care, patients share the cost of treatment—surgical or pharmaceutical.
The province will spend nearly $22 billion on health care in 2018/19.
Unlike Canadians, Germans do not face long wait times for health care.
Insurance companies are the principal beneficiaries of Ontario’s new publicly-funded pharmacare program.
Australia, Germany and the Netherlands all allow more private-sector involvement in health care than Canada.
In the Commonwealth Fund’s rankings of health-care systems, Canada scored a dismal ninth out of 11 countries.
New survey corroborates troubling health-care wait-times trend.
Single-payer health-care systems are often only able to lower costs by rationing services.
The California State Senate recently voted for a universal health-care system in the state.
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