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September 1999 (Volume 77)
Quarterly Article
Kevin M. Gorey
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Robert Evans and Noralou Roos offer evidence to support the general and specific contentions that the Canadian health care system is among the world’s most successful, surpassing even the system that exists in the United States. They succinctly debunk the pervasive mythology of an inefficient and ineffective Canadian system that cannot compare with the “bigger and better” American one. First, by expanding on the central issue of the prevalent lack of health insurance among Americans, and second, by describing in more detail the research on one exemplary outcome of the Canadian system with which my colleagues and I are familiar, cancer survival (Gorey, Holowaty, Fehringer, et al. 1997; Gorey, Holowaty, Laukkanen, et al. 1998a; 1998b), I hope to complement their thoughts on the related matters of what is right with the health care system in Canada and what is wrong with the U.S. system.
Author(s): Kevin M. Gorey
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Volume 77, Issue 3 (pages 401–407) DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00142 Published in 1999