Comparison_Of_American_And_Canadian_Health_Care_Plans

Comparison Of American And Canadian Health Care Plans Comparison of American and Canadian Health Care Plans Anonymous Southern Illinois University Abstract Nations around the world strive to find the best healthcare plans. Canada and the United States, though very close in proximity, are opposite in their ideas of an effective healthcare plan. Since people are drastically growing in numbers, living longer and our technology improving, better health care is becoming a much more complicated task even for highly regarded nations such as America and Canada. COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN HEALTHCARE PLANS Most, when comparing the American Health Care system with that of Canada’s, rate the Canadian system as superior to that of the United States. In reality, however, the two systems are not that easily compared. The demographics, political environment and even the geographic location of the two countries are entirely different. Both systems have their strong points and both have weak points as well. Unfortunately health care in the United States is not free nor is it equally accessible by all. In fact, health care is one of the biggest industries in the United States. It generated an estimated one trillion dollars in revenues in 1995 (Ginzberg, 1994). Over the last care, health, system, united, canadian, cost, canada, states, public, private, managed, healthcare, 1993, percent, insurance, bennett, adams, 1994, both, around, armstrong1998, time, systems, programs, costs, armstrong, 1998, rising, one, ginzberg, fact, being, american, world, spent