From: IN%"jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca" 17-SEP-1996 01:09:37.71 Mind trying to do 72-column or so formatting, BTW?

Canada has a single payer system and we spend about two thirds as much as t= he U.S. on health care as a percentage of G.N.P. We manage to insure all Canad= ians while about 35% of people in the U.S. have *no* health insurance.

Canada also has less smoking, teenage pregnancy, and various other factors which are known to raise health insurance costs. I've seen some studies in which these _entirely_ account for the differences... and keep in mind the rate of health care inflation of the two countries (depending on the study, either the same or higher for Canada.) -Allen