The comparison of the health care systems of Canada and the United States is of great importance to both nations. The very different methods of delivering health care allows citizens and politicians to look to the other side of the border for alternatives. In Canada, the United States is used as a model and as a warning against increasing private sector involvement in health care. In the United States, meanwhile, Canada's monopsonistic health system is seen by different sides of the ideological spectrum as either a model to be followed or avoided.

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