health care companies

[Benny2guns]

America uses a higher percentage of GDP on health care than Canada does. But a lot of that money is diverted into profits for medical insurance companies and health care (hospital) corporations.

Canada provides tax funded health care at no individual costs to the entire population (with waiting lists for elective surgeries).
While America provides employer insured health care to around 80% of its population.

If we measure the quality of health care within nations by their life expectancy stats, then Canada is doing far better than America, and at a lower cost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...expectancy

Thats not entirly true VF as there was a new tax introduced a few years back that charges each individual a yearly premium for health care based on their earnings. They have also dropped eye exams and alot of other services over the years.
Something that I myself have discovered recently here where I live is that the hospital beds are full of elderly people that their next of kin dropped of and left. Never to come back for them because they can't afford to keep them. I was really shocked to find out that this is the reason we have no beds available for people that really need them. The medical staff is also cut way back and is a real problem for people to get care at all.
I do know that this is not an isolated case and the same exists in pretty much all of the Canadian Provence's except for Alberta. There is something wrong with a country when they send vast amounts of tax dollars to other other countries before takeing care of their own at home.
The health care system we do have may be better than other places on earth but it is by no stretch doing the job it is supposed to do and it gets worse every year. Thats just what I see with my own eyes so I am sure it is much much worse.