Innovation in Canada and the UK
Often those that oppose national health care schemes like to claim that innovation and research suffer under the budgetting schemes of countries like Canada and the UK, but this year’s Lasker Medical Awards, “widely considered the United States’ most prestigious medical prizes,” went to two British and two Canadian researchers:
The research award for stem cell work is going to Drs. Ernest A. McCulloch and James E. Till, emeritus professors at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Cancer Institute.
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Sir Edwin Southern of the University of Oxford and Sir Alec J. Jeffreys of the University of Leicester in England received the Lasker Award for developing two powerful technologies, Southern blotting and DNA fingerprinting, that, the foundation said, “together revolutionized human genetics and forensic diagnostics.”
The initial CT and MRI scanner creation also partially came out of Britain as well.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but I was told once by my father that there are as many MRI’s in Philly as there are in all of Canada. The question of ‘Canada’s Health care scheme’ is not only innovation and research, but also the capacity to adequately care for it’s citizens.
Ashe–your father should really take a look at his statistics. While Canada has fewer scanners than other OECD nations, it’s not nearly that low.
As I’ve stated many times before as well, overall Canada does a better job with health outcome indicators than the US.
If, say, 75 % of those Philly MRI’s are in clincis doing whole-body scans, they ain’t much use anyway.
Always look behind the numbers.
Always look behind the numbers. (wtf)
You missed my point. If there are much fewer mri’s, who knows what else is much fewer. I live less than twenty minutes from the Canadian boarder, and I can assure you, Canadians tell me time and time again, they are told by their very own doctors to get to the US as quick as possible if they have a serious illness. It’s much better than taking a number from a ticketcounter and waiting six months to be treated. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.