The United
States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but the
U.S. consistently under-performs relative to other countries on most
dimensions of performance*.
This feature length documentary is currently in the production phase. It explores the health care system in Canada: how it came to be, how it works for ordinary Canadians, how it is paid for, and how it compares to its American counterpart.
* Mirror Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally
The Commonwealth Fund, June, 2010
This feature length documentary is currently in the production phase. It explores the health care system in Canada: how it came to be, how it works for ordinary Canadians, how it is paid for, and how it compares to its American counterpart.
* Mirror Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally
The Commonwealth Fund, June, 2010
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In Canada, health care is regarded as a social service, and treated as a responsibility of the government, to be provided to every citizen.
Not so in the United States. In America, health care is regarded as a profit-making commodity, to be operated for the financial gain of insurance and pharmaceutical companies, doctors and hospitals.
This documentary considers how it came to be that the two systems ended up in such different places.