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Francis A. Miniter  
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 More options May 16, 10:38 am
Newsgroups: rec.arts.mystery
From: "Francis A. Miniter" <famini...@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 20:38:53 -0400
Local: Fri, May 16 2008 10:38 am
Subject: Re: OT: How is Canadian health care worse than US again?

Mary wrote:
> On May 15, 3:40 pm, "Francis A. Miniter" <famini...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> 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

Never said homogeneous.  Just talking ratios.  Given the
similar types of populations, I think we could infer that in
both countries the ratio is better in cities than in the
rural areas.  But nothing in my post went to homogeneity of
coverage.

WHO was presenting a summary of world wide statistics.  The
tables cover nearly 80 pages as it is just to present the
information as to each country.  Take a look at the PDF file
for 2007 on the web page I cited.

Francis A. Miniter


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