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Why Canadian Hospitals Are Cheaper

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 percent 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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