“No wonder health care seems less expensive in Canada – service that cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars each year are simply not counted under the Canadian system… Americans actually get more for their health care dollars than Canadians.”

— David A. Ridenour

David A. Ridenour, "The Wrong Way to Health Care," The New York Times, February 7, 1992

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