[ExI] Private and government R&D

Dan dan_ust at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 17 15:53:05 UTC 2009


--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/18 Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>:
>>  Why is the
>>> Canadian system so much more efficient?
>>
>> ### Why do you say stuff like that?
> 
> Canadian taxpayers pay less per capita for their universal
> public
> health system than US taxpayers do for their more limited
> system. That
> makes the US public health system much less efficient. Why
> is that?

Is that the measure of efficiency? Are you sure Canadians, too, are enough like Americans that that comparison makes sense?

Regards,

Dan


      



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