RT Journal
A1 Himmelstein DU, Woolhandler S
T1 Cost control in a parallel universe: Medicare spending in the united states and canada
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD December 10
VO 172
IS 22
SP 1764
OP 1766
DO 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.272
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.272
AB 
Before the mid-1960s, the 2 nations' health care financing systems were similar, and health care costs were comparable.1 Since then, overall US costs have grown more rapidly, but no study has compared spending for the elderly—the populations covered by Medicare in both nations.