A Lesson from Canada: Ontario's Health Insurance

Mueller, a Canadian surgeon, describes Ontario's version of national health insurance in this week's issue of the Journal (p. 535). Though his subject is Canadian, the message is evidently designed for United States physicians. Although a number of comparisons of medical care in the United States and other countries, mainly European, have raised interesting questions about the importance of widely varying rates of expenditure, hospitalization, surgery and other issues, we in the United States have neglected to inform ourselves about what is happening in Canada, a nation very much like our own. Obviously, we should learn whatever we can from . . .