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In the United States, government mostly helps the poor, elderly, and disabled. In Canada everyone gets insurance from the government. This paper discusses the similarities and differences of both countries in five different aspects; government involvement, price of health care and administrative overheads, coverage and access, wait times, and life expectancy and infant mortality. In 1999 the United States spent a total of $1,059 per capita in health care administration. The United States is the richest country in the world and has more affluent societies however the US is spending more in healthcare than less affluent countries.
The average person in America now consumes $6,567 in health care every year, the highest in the world. The country next closest for health care consumption is Switzerland, which spends $4,311 per person, 34% less than the United States. Japan only spends $2,529 per person, and has the highest life expectancy in the world, while the U.S. is ranked 36th. One justification for this disparity is that health care in the U.S is more expensive. Another comes from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that recently determined that one-third of all health care consumed in the U.S. is unnecessary.
In Canada right now: One in ten children is poor. Canada's child poverty rate of 15 percent is three times as high as the rates of Sweden, Norway or Finland. Every month, 770,000 people in Canada use food banks. Forty percent of those relying on food banks are children. These statistics point to a betrayal of Canada's children.
Effective October 1, 2008, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) selected high-cost or high-frequency events from the National Quality Forum's list of “never events” for inclusion in this reimbursement change (Brown, Doloresco, Mylotte, 2009). Objects left in patients after surgery, certain surgical infections and preventable falls are just a few of the preventable occurrences that will no longer receive reimbursement. Research suggests that there is a correlation between surgical site infections (SSI) and the surgical technique used, for example in relation to skin preparation, shaving and wound closure (CMS, 2012). Skin preparation: The skin is colonised by various types of bacteria, but up to 50% of these are Staphylococcus aureus (Eriksen, et al, 1995). In analyses of contamination rates after cholecystectomy, the main source of wound contamination was found to be the skin of the patient.
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