TY  - JOUR
T1  - Cost control in a parallel universe: Medicare spending in the united states and canada
AU  - Himmelstein DU, Woolhandler S
Y1  - 2012/12/10
N1  - 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.272
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1764
EP  - 1766
VL  - 172
IS  - 22
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.272
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.272
ER  -