Posted on 12/26/2012 8:04:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Canada Ping!
Country | % of GDP (CIA / Eurostat)[1][2] |
Date | % of GDP (IMF) [3] |
Date | Region |
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Albania | 59.4 | 2011 est. | 58.92 | 2011 | Europe |
Algeria | 6.6 | 2011 est. | 9.92 | 2011 | Africa |
Angola | 24.5 | 2011 est. | 30.90 | 2011 | Africa |
Antigua and Barbuda | 130.0 | 2010 est. | 74.55 | 2011 | North America |
Argentina | 42.9 | 2011 est. | 44.20 | 2011 | South America |
Armenia | 35.10 | 2011 | Europe | ||
Aruba | 46.3 | 2005 | North America | ||
Australia | 30.3 | 2011 est. | 22.86 | 2011 | Oceania |
Austria | 72.9 | 2011 | 72.20 | 2011 | Europe |
Azerbaijan | 4.7 | 2011 est. | 10.23 | 2011 | Asia |
Bahamas | 48.61 | 2011 | North America | ||
Bahrain | 75.3 | 2011 est. | 36.46 | 2011 | Asia |
Bangladesh | 36.7 | 2011 est. | Asia | ||
Barbados | 103.9 | 2011 est. | 117.25 | 2011 | North America |
Belarus | 50.24 | 2011 | Europe | ||
Belgium | 98.7 | 2011 | 98.51 | 2011 | Europe |
Belize | 83.6 | 2011 est. | 80.35 | 2011 | North America |
Benin | 31.33 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Bhutan | 78.9 | 2011 est. | 82.00 | 2011 | Asia |
Bolivia | 40.5 | 2011 est. | 32.88 | 2011 | South America |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 39.1 | 2010 est. | 40.63 | 2011 | Europe |
Botswana | 20.3 | 2011 est. | 17.26 | 2011 | Africa |
Brazil | 54.4 | 2011 est. | 66.18 | 2011 | South America |
Brunei Darussalam | 0.00 | 2011 | Asia | ||
Bulgaria | 16.3 | 2011 | 17.04 | 2011 | Europe |
Burkina Faso | 29.44 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Burundi | 35.27 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Cambodia | 28.60 | 2011 | Asia | ||
Cameroon | 16.2 | 2011 est. | 12.87 | 2011 | Africa |
Canada | 83.5 | 2011 est. | 84.95 | 2011 | North America |
Cape Verde | 77.58 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Central African Republic | 40.90 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Chad | 32.15 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Chile | 9.4 | 2011 est. | 9.91 | 2011 | South America |
China | 43.5 | 2011 | 25.84 | 2011 | Asia |
Colombia | 45.6 | 2011 est. | 34.67 | 2011 | South America |
Costa Rica | 44.5 | 2011 est. | 30.76 | 2011 | North America |
Côte d'Ivoire | 65.8 | 2011 est. | 90.53 | 2011 | Africa |
Croatia | 58.0 | 2010 est. | 45.57 | 2011 | Europe |
Cuba | 34.9 | 2011 est. | North America | ||
Cyprus | 72.4 | 2011 | 71.84 | 2011 | Europe |
Czech Republic | 41.2 | 2011 | 41.46 | 2011 | Europe |
Democratic Republic of Congo | 31.99 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Denmark | 46.5 | 2011 | 46.43 | 2011 | Europe |
Djibouti | 55.46 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Dominica | 78.0 | 2009 est. | 69.88 | 2011 | North America |
Dominican Republic | 36.4 | 2011 est. | 29.26 | 2011 | North America |
Ecuador | 22.1 | 2011 est. | 17.98 | 2011 | South America |
Egypt | 85.7 | 2011 est. | 76.45 | 2011 | Africa |
El Salvador | 57.1 | 2011 est. | 50.79 | 2011 | North America |
Equatorial Guinea | 5.5 | 2011 est. | 8.35 | 2011 | Africa |
Eritrea | 133.82 | 2011 | Africa | ||
European Union | 82.5 | 2011 | Europe | ||
Estonia | 6.1 | 2011 | 6.04 | 2011 | Europe |
Ethiopia | 42.3 | 2011 est. | 37.26 | 2011 | Africa |
Fiji | 53.89 | 2011 | Oceania | ||
Finland | 49.3 | 2011 | 48.56 | 2011 | Europe |
France | 86.5 | 2011 | 86.26 | 2011 | Europe |
Gabon | 18.3 | 2011 est. | 20.45 | 2011 | Africa |
Gambia, The | 68.77 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Georgia | 33.88 | 2011 | Europe | ||
Germany | 82.0 | 2011 | 81.51 | 2011 | Europe |
Ghana | 38.7 | 2011 est. | 43.39 | 2011 | Africa |
Gibraltar | 7.5 | 2008 est. | Europe | ||
Greece | 165.3 | 2011 est. | 160.81 | 2011 | Europe |
Grenada | 86.61 | 2011 | North America | ||
Guatemala | 24.5 | 2011 est. | 24.06 | 2011 | North America |
Guinea | 72.19 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Guinea-Bissau | 45.23 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Guyana | 62.1 | 2011 est. | 61.75 | 2011 | South America |
Haiti | 10.63 | 2011 | North America | ||
Honduras | 29.6 | 2011 est. | 28.12 | 2011 | North America |
Hong Kong | 10.1 | 2011 est. | 33.86 | 2011 | Asia |
Hungary | 80.6 | 2011 | 80.45 | 2011 | Europe |
Iceland | 130.1 | 2011 est. | 99.19 | 2011 | Europe |
India | 51.6 | 2011 est. | 68.05 | 2011 | Asia |
Indonesia | 24.5 | 2011 est. | 25.03 | 2011 | Asia |
Iran | 11.6 | 2010 est. | 12.70 | 2011 | Asia |
Iraq | 86.92 | 2011 | Asia | ||
Ireland | 108.4 | 2011 | 104.95 | 2011 | Europe |
Israel | 74.0 | 2011 est. | 74.34 | 2011 | Asia |
Italy | 120.9 | 2011 | 120.11 | 2011 | Europe |
Jamaica | 126.5 | 2011 est. | 138.98 | 2011 | North America |
Japan | 208.2 | 2011 est. | 229.77 | 2011 | Asia |
Jordan | 60.7 | 2011 est. | 69.78 | 2011 | Asia |
Kazakhstan | 16.0 | 2011 est. | 10.88 | 2011 | Asia |
Kenya | 48.5 | 2011 est. | 48.94 | 2011 | Africa |
Kuwait | 6.8 | 2011 est. | 7.35 | 2011 | Asia |
Kyrgyzstan | 52.44 | 2011 | Asia | ||
Laos | 57.36 | 2011 | Asia | ||
Latvia | 42.6 | 2011 | 37.77 | 2011 | Europe |
Lebanon | 137.1 | 2011 est. | 136.22 | 2011 | Asia |
Lesotho | 39.65 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Liberia | 13.92 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Libya | 4.7 | 2011 est. | 0.00 | 2010 | Africa |
Lithuania | 38.5 | 2011 | 38.96 | 2011 | Europe |
Luxembourg | 18.6 | 2011 | 20.85 | 2011 | Europe |
Macedonia | 24.8 | 2010 est. | 28.11 | 2011 | Europe |
Madagascar | 5.68 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Malawi | 36.8 | 2011 est. | 42.46 | 2011 | Africa |
Malaysia | 53.5 | 2011 est. | 52.56 | 2011 | Asia |
Maldives | 69.10 | 2011 | Asia | ||
Mali | 32.6 | 2011 est. | 30.64 | 2011 | Africa |
Malta | 73.0 | 2011 | 70.94 | 2011 | Europe |
Mauritania | 92.40 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Mauritius | 60.2 | 2011 est. | 50.63 | 2011 | Africa |
Mexico | 37.5 | 2011 est. | 43.81 | 2011 | North America |
Moldova | 21.3 | 2010 est. | 23.39 | 2011 | Europe |
Montenegro | 38.0 | 2006 | 45.83 | 2011 | Europe |
Morocco | 65.0 | 2011 est. | 54.39 | 2011 | Africa |
Mozambique | 43.0 | 2011 est. | 33.20 | 2011 | Africa |
Myanmar | 44.32 | 2011 | Asia | ||
Namibia | 27.4 | 2011 est. | 21.85 | 2011 | Africa |
Nepal | 34.07 | 2011 | Asia | ||
Netherlands | 65.9 | 2011 | 66.23 | 2011 | Europe |
New Zealand | 33.7 | 2011 est. | 37.04 | 2011 | Oceania |
Nicaragua | 70.5 | 2011 est. | 72.03 | 2011 | North America |
Niger | 18.94 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Nigeria | 17.6 | 2011 est. | 17.86 | 2011 | Africa |
North Korea | 0.4 | 2007 est. | Asia | ||
Norway | 48.9 | 2010 est. | 49.61 | 2011 | Europe |
Oman | 3.8 | 2011 est. | 5.06 | 2011 | Asia |
Pakistan | 60.1 | 2011 est. | 60.12 | 2011 | Asia |
Panama | 41.7 | 2011 est. | 37.83 | 2011 | North America |
Papua New Guinea | 22.3 | 2011 est. | Oceania | ||
Paraguay | 17.4 | 2011 est. | 13.66 | 2011 | South America |
Peru | 21.7 | 2011 est. | 21.64 | 2011 | South America |
Philippines | 49.4 | 2011 est. | 40.47 | 2011 | Asia |
Poland | 56.3 | 2011 | 55.39 | 2011 | Europe |
Portugal | 108.5 | 2011 | 106.79 | 2011 | Europe |
Qatar | 8.9 | 2011 est. | 31.48 | 2011 | Asia |
Republic of the Congo | 22.17 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Romania | 33.3 | 2011 | 32.96 | 2011 | Europe |
Russia | 8.7 | 2011 est. | 9.60 | 2011 | Asia/Europe |
Rwanda | 23.43 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Saint Kitts and Nevis | 200.0 | 2011 est. | 153.41 | 2011 | North America |
Saint Lucia | 77.0 | 2010 est. | 71.95 | 2011 | North America |
São Tomé and Príncipe | 74.43 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Saudi Arabia | 9.4 | 2011 est. | 7.52 | 2011 | Asia |
Senegal | 33.2 | 2011 est. | 40.62 | 2011 | Africa |
Serbia | 39.5 | 2010 est. | 47.89 | 2011 | Europe |
Seychelles | 46.2 | 2011 est. | 83.02 | 2011 | Africa |
Sierra Leone | 59.96 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Singapore | 118.2 | 2011 est. | 100.79 | 2011 | Asia |
Slovakia | 43.5 | 2011 | 44.63 | 2011 | Europe |
Slovenia | 48.5 | 2011 | 47.31 | 2011 | Europe |
Solomon Islands | 22.64 | 2011 | Oceania | ||
South Africa | 35.6 | 2011 est. | 38.77 | 2011 | Africa |
South Korea | 33.3 | 2011 est. | 34.14 | 2011 | Asia |
Spain | 69.3 | 2011 | 68.47 | 2011 | Europe |
Sri Lanka | 78.5 | 2011 est. | 78.2 | Asia | |
St. Vincent and Grenadines | 90.0 | 2010 est. | 71.41 | 2011 | North America |
Sudan | 100.8 | 2011 est. | 73.14 | 2011 | Africa |
Suriname | 20.57 | 2011 | South America | ||
Swaziland | 17.53 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Sweden | 38.4 | 2011 | 37.44 | 2011 | Europe |
Switzerland | 38.7 | 2010 est. | 35.0 | 2011 | Europe |
Syria | 34.4 | 2011 est. | Asia | ||
Taiwan | 34.9 | 2011 est. | 40.80 | 2011 | Asia |
Tajikistan | 35.35 | 2011 | Asia | ||
Tanzania | 36.9 | 2011 est. | 44.39 | 2011 | Africa |
Thailand | 40.5 | 2011 est. | 41.69 | 2011 | Asia |
Togo | 30.84 | 2011 | Africa | ||
Trinidad and Tobago | 31.7 | 2011 est. | 32.35 | 2011 | North America |
Tunisia | 51.8 | 2011 est. | 42.41 | 2011 | Africa |
Turkey | 42.4 | 2011 est. | 39.44 | 2011 | Asia/Europe |
Turkmenistan | 15.35 | 2011 | Asia | ||
Uganda | 25.0 | 2011 est. | 29.22 | 2011 | Africa |
Ukraine | 44.8 | 2011 est. | 36.50 | 2011 | Europe |
United Arab Emirates | 43.9 | 2011 est. | 16.89 | 2011 | Asia |
United Kingdom | 86.8 | 2012 | 82.50 | 2011 | Europe |
United States | 105.5 | 2012 est. | 102.94 | 2011 | North America |
Uruguay | 51.0 | 2011 est. | 54.19 | 2011 | South America |
Uzbekistan | 7.7 | 2011 est. | 9.10 | 2011 | Asia |
Venezuela | 36.3 | 2011 est. | 45.50 | 2011 | South America |
Vietnam | 57.3 | 2011 est. | 37.97 | 2011 | Asia |
Wallis and Futuna | 5.6 | 2004 | Oceania | ||
Yemen | 37.2 | 2011 est. | 42.52 | 2011 | Asia |
Zambia | 27.3 | 2011 est. | 26.07 | 2011 | Africa |
Zimbabwe | 230.8 | 2011 est. | 70.33 | 2011 | Africa |
The only reason we haven’t collapsed yet is everybody is equally screwed up and everybody owes everybody else.
BTW, North Korea has the best debt to GDP ratio? Really? Wow!
Bump
bkmk
RE: Canada better get prepared because I see millions of US citizens fleeing for better economic conditions just like they did from Communist East Germany.
I don’t see how adding thousands more to the already strained FREE Canadian healthcare system (when many of their sick are already flocking to the USA for treatment they can’t get at home) is going to be good for Canada OR the USA.
Google 'FATCA'. The wall is already up - no thanks to our friendly neighborhood Republicans.
Actually, I see a net gain for Canada as the first to flee the USA will be the most productive. We’ll just have to be sure to slam the door on the parasite class.
BTW our immigration system gives preference to Americans who hold professional credentials or have capital to start a business. And our corporate taxes are lower.
Canada is very dependent upon the United States for any number of things, both economic and geopolitical. I wouldn’t crow too loudly or too long about the rise of Canada at US expense. If we go down we’re dragging you right behind us.
I hate to pop your bubble but what you posted is pure b.s. I am no fan of public health but it does work and few canadians are anxious to run down south to pay untold thousands of dollars for a procedure covered at home by their healthcare package.
I imagine it works fine if you’re willing to wait and are authorized by whatever faceless committee there is to get the procedure done. How does it work out for the old folks, the obese, and the handicapped? It looks like it doesn’t work out too well for them in Great Britain. Hopefully Canada’s better.
There’s no question that our economic fortunes are tied to those of the USA; that’s one of the reasons we’re looking to export more of our resources to Asia. Proximity to the Yanks has done wonders for us, but anything to broaden our markets is a good thing.
RE: few canadians are anxious to run down south to pay untold thousands of dollars for a procedure covered at home by their healthcare package.
“Few” and “many” are relative numbers. Read my post again, I did not post a number. I said MANY and THAT is true and MOST DEFINITELY NOT BS.
If you’re happy with Canada has to offer, nobody is telling you to leave for the USA. But the fact is MANY are still coming to the USA.
SEE HERE FOR INSTANCE (just one of the many articles out there ):
http://www.freep.com/article/20090820/BUSINESS06/908200420/Canadians-visit-U-S-get-health-care
Hospitals in border cities, including Detroit, are forging lucrative arrangements with Canadian health agencies to provide care not widely available across the border.
Agreements between Detroit hospitals and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for heart, imaging tests, bariatric and other services provide access to some services not immediately available in the province, said ministry spokesman David Jensen.
The agreements show how a country with a national care system — a proposal not part of the health care changes under discussion in Congress — copes with demand for care with U.S. partnerships, rather than building new facilities.
Michael Vujovich, 61, of Windsor was taken to Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital for an angioplasty procedure after he went to a Windsor hospital in April. Vujovich said the U.S. backup doesn’t show a gap in Canada’s system, but shows how it works.
“I go to the hospital in Windsor and two hours later, I’m done having angioplasty in Detroit,” he said. His $38,000 bill was covered by the Ontario health ministry.
Dany Mercado, a leukemia patient from Kitchener, Ontario, is cancer-free after getting a bone marrow transplant at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit.
Told by Canadian doctors in 2007 he couldn’t have the procedure there, Mercado’s family and doctor appealed to Ontario health officials, who agreed to let him have the transplant in Detroit in January 2008.
The Karmanos Institute is one of several Detroit health facilities that care for Canadians needing services not widely available in Canada.
Canada, for example, has waiting times for bariatric procedures to combat obesity that can stretch to more than five years, according to a June report in the Canadian Journal of Surgery.
As a result, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in April designated 13 U.S. hospitals, including five in Michigan and one more with a tentative designation, to perform bariatric surgery for Canadians.
The agreements provide “more immediate services for patients whose health is at risk,” Jensen said.
Three Windsor-area hospitals have arrangements with Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, to provide backup, after-hours angioplasty. Authorities will clear Detroit-Windsor Tunnel traffic for ambulances, if necessary. The Detroit Medical Center also provides Canadians complex trauma, cancer, neonatal and other care.
“In the last few years, we’ve seen more and more Canadian patients,” said Dr. J. Edson Pontes, senior vice president of international medicine at the DMC. They include Canadians such as Mercado, whose care is reimbursed by Canada’s health system, as well as people who pay out of pocket to avoid waiting in Canada.
Pontes declined to give revenue figures for the DMC’s international business, but said the program “always has been a profitable entity.” About 300 of the DMC’s 400 international patients last year came from Canada, he said.
Tony Armada, chief executive officer of Henry Ford Hospital, said the hospital received $1 million for cardiac care alone.
Critics of a health care system like Canada’s — a publicly funded system that pays for medically necessary care determined by provinces — often cite gaps in Canada’s care to argue that the United States should not allow its current debate over health care to move it to a socialized system.
No plan currently under discussion in Congress calls for a universal plan like Canada’s, but opponents fear socialized medicine, anyway.
Canada’s U.S. backup care “speaks volumes to why we don’t need government to take over health care,” Scott Hagerstrom, the state director in Michigan for Americans for Prosperity, said of the Canadian arrangements with Michigan hospitals. “Their system doesn’t work if they have to send us their patients.”
But Dr. Uwe Reinhardt, a Princeton University health economist who has studied the U.S. and Canadian health systems, said arrangements with cities like Detroit “are a terrific way to manage capacity” given Canada’s smaller health care budget.
“This is efficient,” he said. “At least in Canada, you don’t worry about going broke to pay for health care. You do here.”
Pat Somers, vice president of operations at Windsor’s Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital, one of the hospitals that sends patients to Henry Ford, said the issue of finding ways to pay for and prioritize care requests is not in only Windsor.
“The ministries are quite aware of” waits for care in Sarnia and Hamilton, she said. “That’s why we are investing in a wait list strategy” to best determine how to prioritize cases for people who need hip and knee replacements, cataract surgery and treatment for cancer, for example.
Mercado, 26, faced a longer wait because he could not find a matching blood donor, even though his family conducted a broad search.
He said doctors told him money was limited for transplants, particularly ones using unmatched donors, which are riskier.
After his family’s doctor wrote the Ontario ministry, the agency agreed to pay $200,000 for the operation.
The family, their church and Mercado’s school, Conestoga College in Kitchener, raised another $51,000 to cover expenses going back and forth to Detroit.
“I think of this every day as a gift from God,” Mercado said.
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RE: I am no fan of public health but it does work
So if it works, why are you not a fan? YOU OUGHT TO BE.
If it works, why not keep it and recommend it to the USA?
EXCERPT:
Fraser Institute is stirring the pot with a new report that claims that 46,169 Canadians left the country to get medical treatment elsewhere in 2011.
“In some cases, these patients needed to leave Canada due to a lack of available resources or a lack of appropriate procedure [or] technology,” Nadeem Esmail, the author notes in his report.
“In others, their departure will have been driven by a desire to return more quickly to their lives, to seek out superior quality care, or perhaps to save their own lives or avoid the risk of disability. Clearly, the number of Canadians who ultimately receive their medical care in other countries is not insignificant.”
The report buoys the argument of two Alberta men who are taking Alberta’s private healthcare ban to court.
On Tuesday, the National Post reported that former Wildrose Party candidate John Carpay is representing the two men who say they paid thousands of dollars for surgery in the United States because the wait was too long in Alberta. The province then refused to reimburse them because the procedures were available at home.
“We’re saying the current model forces people to suffer in pain on waiting lists and sometimes risk death,” Carpay told the Post.
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See the number in 2011? 46,169.
That may be few to you compared to over 30 million Canadians but for these people, that’s 46,169 too many.
Yeah...I’m not sure you understand how our health care system works. Yes, you have to wait, but there are no death panels here. Everyone gets the same standard of care. The doctors and patients decide on the care. Yep, sometimes you have to push your doctor to get you the tests you need, but not usually.
Who controls the funds? Someone has to make the decision as to whether a person is going to have money spent on their care and how much will be spent.
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