• Ontario paid 75 per cent more to for-profit labs than it had to non-profit community labs over the previous 30 years, for the same tests. • Public-private partnerships are 83 per cent costlier to finance than public projects. • Canadians spend roughly half of what the private U.S. system spends per person and we get better coverage and outcomes. • Studies comparing U.S. and Canadian outcomes for heart attacks, cancer, surgical procedures and chronic conditions show that Canada does at least as well, often better. • A recent Canadian study found that expedited knee surgery in a for-profit clinic costs $3,222 compared to $959 in a public hospital (with worse return-to-work outcomes). Clearly, the false solution is making a bad situation (under-funding) worse.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:42:35 +0000
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