Ezra Klein Archive: Health of Nations
Health care in Canada
I'm on record as having some problems with how the Canadians run their health-care system. In particular, I think it's good to have a floor for health care -- and that floor could be single-payer, as it is in Canada...
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| February 15, 2011; 3:42 PM ET |
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A few more notes on health-care reform
May as well just combine these into one post. 1) Some parts are working better than expected. Notably, the small-business tax credits. As the L.A. Times reports, "major insurers around the country are reporting that a growing number of small...
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| January 7, 2011; 5:21 PM ET |
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Think government is bureaucratic and rationing-happy? Try dealing with insurers.
Here's what we know about government: It's inefficient, and working with it requires endless paperwork and arguments about bureaucrats. And here's what we know about government-run health care: It rations, and is constantly rejecting claims. At least, that's what we...
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| November 18, 2010; 10:34 AM ET |
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Debunking myths about Canadian health care
Are Canadians flooding into the United States to get better health care? No. Are Canadian doctors immigrating to the United States to work for our health-care system? No....
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| October 12, 2010; 10:53 AM ET |
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U.S. health-care system: Still bad
Years ago, the World Health Organization came out with a ranking of health systems that placed the US 37th. Over time, there's been a fair amount of controversy over the WHO's methodology, and so the Commonwealth Foundation began a new...
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| June 23, 2010; 11:35 AM ET |
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The French health-care system is way better than our health-care system
Frum Forum's Rachel Ryan just had her first run-in with the French health-care system, and it went pretty great: I walked into the Centre de Santé – Réaumur’s emergency health center at noon and was admitted within twenty minutes....
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| April 7, 2010; 2:19 PM ET |
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