International HealthCare

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Singapore’s Health Care System

A new study shows that Singapore’s health-care system places first when compared with the health-care systems of seven other countries. Canadian health economist Cynthia Ramsay ranked the health-care systems of Singapore, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Australia and South Africa. The study uses an index similar to the United Nations Human […]

Americans have more medical rights than Canadian

For a while one could maintain that Americans had more rights in the Canadian health care system than Canadians did. More recently, American members of Toronto professional sports teams were paying for care at Ontario hospitals, jumping the queue by paying for care. A new law outlaws this practice as well. One could even argue that […]

NHS – The NMS – A new way to obtain new medications?

Q&A about the New Medicine Service (NMS) If you are prescribed a medicine to treat a long-term condition for the first time, you may be able to get extra help and advice about your medicine from your local pharmacist through a free scheme called the New Medicine Service (NMS). People often have problems when they start a […]

Compared to American Health Care

Surprising Facts about American Health Care Brief Analyses | Health | NCPA | No. 649 | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 by Scott Atlas Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world.  Economists, government officials, insurers and academics alike are beating the drum for […]