Comparison of Healthcare System of US and Canada

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Comparison of Healthcare System of US and Canada
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COMPARISON OF HEALTHCARE SYSTEM OF USA AND CANADA
Introduction
This paper describes the comparison of health care systems in Canada and the United
States along different dimensions. Both the two countries are highly advanced industrialized
nations. Canada performs well as compared to the US about health outcomes, cost, and coverage.
The first part describes how Canada and United States to fund and organize the Public health
system. The next part covers the performance of the two nations regarding the main building
blocks or elements of the health system. The third part explains the cost-effectiveness analysis
and cost-benefit analysis are as well as how they can be put to use to help in the allocation of
resources about health care analysis. The last part is the description of the essential reforms that
should be implemented to improve the health care system in both the two nations (Kumar, Sidell,
Jones & Vonesh, 2014).
The US healthcare spends more money as compared to Canada, on both a percentage of
GDP basis and per-capita. In the year 2006, the healthcare spending on per-capita in Canada was
US$3,678 while in the US the per capita spending was US$ 6,714. In the same year, the
healthcare in the US spent approximately 15.3% of GDP while Canada healthcare systems pay
10% of GDP. In the year 2006, 70% of spending on healthcare in Canada was derived from the
government finance while 46% represent US spending on the healthcare which was financed by
the government (Shah, Lee, Reddy, Lin & Wu, 2018). The total spending of per capita by the
government in the United States on healthcare was represented by 23% which was higher than
the spending of the Canadian government. The government expenditure of the United States on

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healthcare was higher than that of the Canadian spending on health care. Therefore, Canada pays
an estimate of 9% of national GDP to ensure all of the Citizens in their single-payer system,
while with US who spend more than 14% of GDP for insuring an approximate of 85% of
Americans.
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The United State healthcare is more expensive as compared to Canada. The difference
between Canada and US in administration and billing costs increases every year. Because of the
high cost of medical services, the US has different private corporations that provide insurance
options for all the population (Himmelstein et al., 2014).
The healthcare expenditure in the United States is mainly financed by both the private
and public sectors while the public sector is funding 70% of the Canada expenditure on