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Canadians healthier than Americans, study finds

"These findings raise serious questions about what we're getting for the $2.1 trillion we're spending on health care this year," said Dr. David Himmelstein, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard.

"We pay almost twice what Canada does for care, more than $6,000 for every American, yet Canadians are healthier, and live two to three years longer," Himmelstein added in a statement.

What we're getting is a bloated bureaucracy, American-style, where the bureaucrats are in the board room rather than in government and their incentives are often not geared toward the effective delivery of good health care.