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From: kech3/27/2010 9:22:31 AM
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Very interesting paper on health care in US compared to other countries. One tidbit:

Canada is often said to deliver comparable care, produce comparable outcomes, and still spend less than the US.30 However, the proportion of middle-aged Canadian women who have never had a mammogram is twice the US rate, and three times as many Canadian women have never had a pap smear. Fewer than 20% of Canadian men have ever been tested for prostate-specific antigen, compared with about 50% of US men. Only 10% of adult Canadians have ever had a colonoscopy, compared with 30% of US adults. These differences in screening may partly explain why the mortality rate in Canada is 25% higher for breast cancer, 18% higher for prostate cancer, and 13% higher for colorectal cancer.31

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