The United States and Canada: Different Approaches to Health Care
- 18 December 1986
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 315 (25) , 1608-1610
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198612183152510
Abstract
Most people would agree that the health care system in wealthy, technically advanced countries like the United States and Canada ought to have as its primary objective access of all citizens to adequate, mainstream care, at a cost the national economy can afford. Knowledgeable observers, who understand how important physicians are to the quality and innovativeness of medical services, would probably add another important objective — i.e., preservation of the morale and professional traditions of the doctors.Despite their common border and shared culture, the United States and Canada have taken quite different roads in seeking these ends. In the . . .Keywords
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