6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom.
7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.
8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.
9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.
10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.
American men who have had good access to prostate-cancer screening maywonder why Canadian men are three times less likely to get the PSAantigen test. For that matter, everyone may ask why Americans are sixtimes more likely to have important colonoscopy testing than ournorthern neighbors.
Our system isn’t perfect, but if we want to fix it, let’s fix the real problems instead of breaking what works.