Table 1.

Access to Health Care: Canada and the United States.

Canada United States
Insured Uninsured
Have regular physician 85% 85% 40%
Seen MD within year 83% 86% 56%
Unmet health needs? 11% 10% 36%
Can’t afford medications 5% 8% 28%

Data from Lasser, Himmelstein, and Woodhandler, Access to care, health status, and health disparities in the United States and Canada. Am J Public Health 2006;96(7):1300–7.

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2014 July; 5(3): e0017. ISSN: 2076-9172
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