IndependentinWis
Mayor
When I hear people compare our health care system to another, it seems they always compare ours to Canada with the usual horror stories of long waits for service. When someone mentions our health care systems extremely high costs and low outcomes, we are usually ranked somewhere about 37th in the world, we get attacked with comparisons to Canada's system. Well, if you want to compare costs, Canada's health care costs per capita are only 45% of ours. Their system also covers all of their citizens while our leaves out somewhere between 30 and 50 million people, depending if you re looking at the high or low estimate. If we went to the Canadian universal system our country would save just about a trillion dollars a year in health care costs. But instead of looking at the Canadian System, let us compare our system to say Switzerland. Their system is very similar to Obamacre, i.e., they require all citizens to buy health insurance. They are the second highest country in cost per capita and if we went to their system we would still save about 124 billion dollars a year in health care cost. They also rank much higher than us in health care outcomes. So whether we went to the Canadian System of universal health care or the Switzerland System that requires everyone purchasing health care insurance, this country would save on health care costs.
