Study reveals Sweden outperforms Canada on health-care access and outcomes
1 Sep 18 7:00 AM · 5d ago · 2 articles · 1 post · 5 comments · 3 sources · development 1 of 2
National Post publishes analysis of a new study comparing universal health-care systems in Sweden and Canada. Despite similar per-capita spending, Sweden achieves faster access to care and lower rates of unmet medical needs.
“In Sweden, privately insured patients continue to contribute to the public system through income taxation. They do not opt out financially.”
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1 outlet Sweden consistently outperforms Canada on universal health care despite similar spending: new study
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From what I've heard from premed students (some of them family), that the bottleneck isn't so much the school space as the available placements for residency programs. It is useless to increase the number of graduates without increasing the number of residencies first. These residencies are also the intake path for licensing of international…
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I always make this point after having lived in europe. Over there health professionals are considered same as all other public service workers like teachers and firefighters and have similar salaries (adjusted for amount of education they need).
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Well that's not net. You have to pay for your office and supplies. After taxes and what not it's likely 100k net for a family doctor and 250 net for a surgeon.
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In 2024, wait times leading to unmet medical needs affected two per cent of Swedes, compared with 9.1 per cent of Canadians
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You're lucky if it was only 8 hours. My wife tried it a few weeks back and it was over 12. We ended up going to emergency.
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