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Canada had the sixth most expensive health care system among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, with total health spending at 10.1% of GDP, compared to Korea at only 6.3% and the U.S. with the highest at 15.7%. Canada, however, ranks low on the scale when measuring availability of medical resources and services.

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per million population 1 Australia 56.0 2 Korea 37.1 3 United States 34.3 4 Iceland 32.1 5 Switzerland 31.4 6 Italy 31.0 7 Austria 29.9 8 Greece 28.9 9 Luxembourg 27.1 10 Portugal 26.0 OECD AVG. 20.2 11 Denmark 18.5 12 Finland 16.5 13 Germany 16.3 14 Spain 14.6 15 Ireland 14.3 16 Czech Rep. 12.9 17 Canada 12.7 18 Belgium 12.6 19 New Zealand 12.3 20 Slovenia 10.9 21 France 10.2 22 Poland 9.7 23 Netherlands 7.8 24 U.K. 7.6 25 Hungary 7.3 26 Israel 7.2

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per million population 1 United States 25.9 2 Italy 20.0 3 Iceland 19.3 4 Greece 17.9 5 Austria 17.7 6 Korea 16.0 7 Finland 15.3 8 Switzerland 14.0 9 Luxembourg 10.4 OECD AVG. 10.1 10 Spain 9.3 11 Portugal 8.9 12 New Zealand 8.8 13 Ireland .5 14 Germany 8.2 15 Netherlands 7.6 16 Belgium 7.5 17 Canada 6.7 18 U.K. 5.6 18 France 5.6 20 Australia 5.1 21 Czech Rep. 4.4 22 Slovenia 3.5 23 Hungary 2.8 24 Poland 2.7 25 Israel 1.9

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Source: Fraser Institute Report Value for Money from Health Insurance Systems in Canada and the OECD

Canada is the only country among the 28 OECD countries studied where private comprehensive medical insurance is e ectively prohibited. In Canada, private insurance is only permitted to cover goods and services that are not covered by the universal government-run health insurance plan (mainly dental services and prescription drugs).

per 100,000 populat ion 1 Germany 194.0 2 United States 183 .1 3 Austria 180.9 4 Switzerland 178 .2 5 Finland 171.1 6 Belgium 167.7 7 Australia 158.1 8 Luxembourg 154 .8 9 Canada 141.5 10 United Kingdom 138.7 OECD AVG. 119.0

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In 2007, Canada was only one of four among the 28 OECD countries studied that does not require cost-sharing for services performed in publicly funded hospitals, by general physicians or specialists. The other three countries are Denmark, Spain and the United Kingdom.