[BillyBonebrake]

Canada did even make the list?

I’m dying to know where Canada came in, no pun intended.

[Brujo]

Canada did even make the list?

I'm dying to know where Canada came in, no pun intended.

Hmm, Canada isn't even on the list? Is that because

• Canada wasn't important enough to list? (Hard to believe since they have a number for Slovenia!)
• People in Canada don't get cancer (or not enough of them do) so there's no statistically significant result?
• Canada's numbers are worse than anyone in the list so they fell off the bottom? (All joking aside, that would be really hard to believe.)
• Canada is just part of the US anyway so the numbers for Canada are folded into the US number. (JOKE, JOKE, JOKE! GEEZ, STOP HITTING ME!)
• Or, most likely, the chart represents European survival rates only, with the US tossed in (on the top!) to infuriate the supporters of socialized medicine. (The funniest thing is that France isn't listed. According to the chart, “Figures for France not available”.)

[Snowyman]

A systematic review of studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the United States

Background: Differences in medical care in the United States compared with Canada, including greater reliance on private funding and for-profit delivery, as well as markedly higher expenditures, may result in different health outcomes.

Methods: We identified studies comparing health outcomes of patients in Canada and the United States by searching ultiple bibliographic databases and resources.
We masked study results before determining study eligibility. We abstracted study characteristics, including methodological quality and generalizability.

Results: We identified 38 studies comparing populations of patients in Canada and the United States. Studies addressed diverse problems, including cancer, coronary artery disease, chronic medical illnesses and surgical procedures. Of 10 studies that included extensive statistical adjustment and enrolled broad populations, 5 favoured Canada, 2 favoured the United States, and 3 showed equivalent or mixed results. Of 28 studies that failed one of these criteria, 9 favoured Canada, 3 favoured the United States, and 16 showed equivalent or mixed results. Overall, results for mortality favoured Canada . The only condition in which results consistently favoured one country was end-stage renal disease, in which Canadian patients fared better.

Canadian outcomes appear superior in head and neck cancer, and possibly for low-income patients with a variety of cancers; American women with breast cancer appear to have better survival rates than Canadian women.

Canadian health care has many well-publicized limitations. Nevertheless, it produces health benefits similar, or perhaps superior, to those of the US health system

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Health/US_Canada_Health_Outcomes.html