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Why US Healthcare costs so much

jonathan@geop.ubc.ca (Jonathan Thornburg)
(smirk, true)

The Vancouver [British Columbia] Sun, Thursday, 18 March 1993, page A13
lead headline "United States"

"Hospital costs prove 40% less in Canada

by Daniel Haney, AP Science writer

Washington --

Hospitals cost almost 40 per cent more in the United States than
in Canada, largely because [...]

[...]

U.S. hospitals are more expensive, in part, because the cases they
treat are 14 per cent [sic] more complex.  [Dr. Donald] Redelmeier,
of Wellesley Hospital in Toronto, writing in the New England Journal
of Medicine] said this reflects social differences between the two
countries.
``Frostbite of the nose is not as expensive to treat as a shotgun
wound to the belly,'' he said.

[...]

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