{"id":32325,"date":"2013-01-26T12:40:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T19:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/26\/how-do-we-reduce-health-care-spending.html"},"modified":"2013-01-26T12:40:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T19:40:40","slug":"how-do-we-reduce-health-care-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/26\/how-do-we-reduce-health-care-spending.html","title":{"rendered":"How do we reduce health care spending?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, looking at how Canada spends less per person — not person in the national health care system, but person in the country — than we do. \u00a0And the reason is not because they have more "free market reforms" than we do. The Canadian system isn't perfect, but from talking to a lot of Canadians, it makes ours look sick\u00a0— and expensive<\/i> sick.<\/p>\n

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"The data show government health care spending per capita in the United States and Canada. The United States spends more. And that's not more per person who gets government health insurance, it's more per resident. And yet Canada covers all its citizens, and we don't. That should be considered shocking stuff, and yet I rarely hear it mentioned."<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well, looking at how Canada spends less per person — not person in the national health care system, but person in the country — than we do. \u00a0And the reason is not because they have more "free market reforms" than we do. 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