HRD-91-90 Canadian Health Insurance: Lessons for the United States

Canadian Health Insurance: Lessons for the United States

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

A valuable contribution to the health care debate.

Health care professionals, policy makers, and behavioral and social scientists from Canada and the US present objective and value-free discussions of lessons from the Canadian health care system that might help guide reforms in the US. With a special emphasis on long-term care and the elderly, describes features of the Canadian system and the requirements of a US system. The 17 papers were presented at an April 1993 conference in Fort Worth, Texas. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR