US and Canadian Health Care Compared
A great deal of our work over the last 20 years has been with healthcare systems and health insurance companies in both the US and Canada. We are probably best known for achieving breakthrough results in cultural transformation, strategy formation and leadership performance. We have also worked closely with leaders and their teams in acquisition, turnaround situations and CEO transitions.
Along the way we are frequently asked, “How does the US health care system compare with the Canadian one?” and the questioner is nearly always either coming with an agenda or working with inaccurate information. And Michael Moore’s film Sicko may have added more heat than light.
Recently a brilliant analysis of the two systems, and the associated myths, was provided in an op-ed piece in The Denver Post by Rhonda Hacket.
If you work in healthcare and are wondering what a single-payer system might look like, and if you want to know the facts about the two systems rather than the propaganda, this is a MUST read. See the full article here: http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_12523427
August 20th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Thank you for alerting your readers to this factual and rational story about healthcare, Lance. I’m thankful that I no longer work for the healthcare behemoth I did during the Clinton administration since our company was strongly anti-reform and pushed misinformation on staff members so that we would inundate our elected officials with pleas not to change the system.
As someone who has had care overseas, by government-run healthcare providers, I see absolutely no reason to fear the involvement of the government. If US elected officials have their healthcare provided for them, then covering all the rest of us who live in this fine country isn’t just good sense it morally correct.
August 28th, 2009 at 9:37 am
An acquaintance of mine knows the health care system in Ontario very
well. This person works as an activist for reform and is a top level
government spokesperson. When asked what the differences are between
our system in Canada and the system in the US the reply is as follows:
“We have a system in place in Canada. You do not have a system
in the US. ” I thought that was actually quite an eye opener personally.