>> By another WHO measure, physician density per 1,000 of
>> population, Canada has 2.14 and the US has 2.56, giving the
>> US a slightly better coverage.  And Canada has 36 hospital
>> beds per 10,000 while the US is at 33.  However, health
>> expenditures as a % of GDP run 15.4% in the US and only 9.8%
>> in Canada.

>Whoa, there, Francis.  I have a hard time believing that the physician
>density is homogeneous in either the US or Canada.  Ditto hospital
>beds.  Does WHO recognize this?

>Mary