Chapter 3 Blog
Has Canada Got the Cure?
http://www.yesmagazine.org/

This article compares the United States' health care program and Canada's public tax supported health care. It states that the US is the only country in the developed world that doesn't have public payed health care. Furthermore, the US has the most expensive health care in the world with one of the most unhealthiest population. Theres a great difference between how long people live in Canada and how long people live in the US mainly because of the expensive health care. Because the health care in the US is so expensive, many of the poor people can not afford the health care program leading to poorer public health. The US spends the most capita on health in the world and if they switched to a system like Canada's they would save over $161 billion every year. However, this money comes from the people who are sick and not the government.

I am pretty glad that we have a good health care system in Canada even though if some of us pays for something we do not need, it is better for everyone esle in the country. If we do change it, our death rates might increase to the United States' level. I think that private health care would not work as well for the country because some people can not afford it. It may seem better if we payed our own health care without tax but the poor people who can not afford it might not be able to get health care.

This article links to chapter 3 because it compares the US private health care and Canada's public taxed health care. There are many differences between these two health care systems
and some similarities also.