Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
It’s a well-known fact the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) extends its reaches far beyond U.S. borders. American expats around the world are required to file a tax return every year, regardless of where they live or work. Now American expats living in Canada are being told they will have to pay a new health care [...]
Wait times are the boogeyman of public health systems all over the world. They cut to the very heart of the debate over costs versus access to care. Hardly a week goes by where we don’t see a story on the world’s ever-lengthening patient queues (and trust us, we make it our business to keep [...]
40% of Americans and 53% of Canadians say they sometimes wash their hands without soap, according to a survey by global hygiene company SCA and IPOBE Zogbe International. The survey was commissioned in honor of Global Handwashing Day (October 15th, for expats who aren’t in the know). It consisted of 3,000 respondents, including US and [...]
US doctors spend almost four times as much as their Canadian peers on administrative expenses related to health insurance, found a study by Cornell University and the University of Toronto. Costs per physician averaged USD 82,975 in the US, only USD 22,205 in Canada. Researchers concluded that Canada’s simpler, single-payer system was responsible for the [...]
Recent OECD statistics paint a grim picture of obesity in the UK: nearly 25% of Britons are obese and over 60% overweight, compared to an average of 16% and 50% for the OECD as a whole. And while the British can take comfort in the fact that England is far from the fattest country in [...]
Patients who received poorly coordinated medical care or were unable to afford basic medical costs were much more likely to report errors in their medication or treatment, according to a study published in the International Journal of Medical Practice. Researchers from the USA and Australia used data from the Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey [...]
The Travel Health Insurance Association of Canada (THIA) is urging all those living and travelling in Europe to carry proof of medical insurance while abroad. The President of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade (DFAIT), David Hartman, addressed Canadians in particular, saying “Canadian insurance is almost certainly not valid outside Canada. It [...]
If you’re moving to Canada, Bermuda or South Africa, you might never want to go back again. According the most recent HSBC Bank International’s Expat Explorer survey, these were the most welcoming countries for expatriates. The Netherlands proved to be the least friendly of all with only 36% of expats based there finding it easy [...]
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