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More successful universal health-care countries employ some form of cost-sharing

In most universal health-care systems, patients share the cost of care through deductibles, co-insurance and co-payments.


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Canada’s chronic health-care problems will likely persist post-pandemic

Canada ranked 25th out of 26 countries for the number of acute care beds.


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Nova Scotia can improve health care without breaking the bank

Since 1999, the provincial government increased health-care spending by more than 78 per cent.


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Alberta operates remarkably inefficient health-care system with huge price tag

The province had the capacity to perform more than 1.3 million CT exams but only 419,000 were actually performed.


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Canada’s COVID performance on key measures among worst in developed world

Canada has the seventh-worst “case fatality rate” among advanced countries.


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COVID-19 case counts, mortality rates vary widely across developed world

Each additional hospital bed (per 1,000 people) was associated with 31.5 fewer COVID-19 deaths per million.