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What is wrong with Canadian Health Care?

by Heather | Sep 20, 2009 | Canadian Health Care Information

Ask someone who is waiting for a test or surgery, or who cannot find a family doctor what is wrong with Canadian health care and they will say “access”. Ask a patient who has experienced its medical failings and they will say “accountability”....

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by Heather | Sep 18, 2009 | Canadian Health Care Information

In June 2006, I survived an adverse event in a hospital while giving birth to my daughter. In the weeks that followed my condition continued to deteriorate. A lack of accessibility and accountability in the Canadian health care system forced me to become my own...

World Health Organization’s Ranking of the World’s Health Systems

by Heather | Sep 9, 2009 | Canadian Health Care Information

Some people fancy all health care debates to be a case of Canadian Health Care vs. American. Not so. According to the World Health Organization’s ranking of the world’s health systems, neither Canada nor the USA ranks in the top 25. Improving the Canadian...
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