As explained in a 1961 interview when asked why government is best fit to deliver health care over private insurance companies, Douglas replied: "No private plan can take cognizance of a family's ability to pay; only government can levy taxes on that basis.... A 2000 study taken by the World Health Organisation ranked Canada's health care system thirtieth in the world, below countries like France, Britain, Sweden and Japan who all have health care systems which fund between seventy-nine and eighty-two percent of attributed costs. The United States was ranked thirty-seventh on th...

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