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RickH wrote:

On May 26, 5:34*pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
hibb wrote:

For example, there are fewer than 200 MRI machines in the whole
country of Canada (and probably none in Cuba). We have more MRI
machines in my CITY than in the whole country of Canada.

Do yo have a cite for that?

"Pittsburgh has more MRI machines than Canada"
http://healthcare-economist.com/2008...as-more-mri-ma...

"... the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Medical Imaging
in Canada, 2007 reports that in 2007, there were ... 222 MRI machines
installed and operational in Canada...
"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/119356.php

"At the beginning of 2005, Canada had 176 MRI scanners..."

"Canada ranked 12th, reporting 5.5 MRI scanners per million people. Japan
and the U.S. had the highest number, with 35.3 and 27.0 per million,
respectively..."

http://www.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage....ia_08feb2006_e

And others.

In my city, there are 82 radiographic and imaging centers, each with
presumably at least one MRI. We have more than 100 hospitals, the largest
having 1,500 beds. At least half of these hospitals have MRI machines. The
city also has several hundred radiologists, orthopedists, and other
specialists with an MRI machine in the office.

According to the latest data, the United States has just over one MRI
scanner for every 40,000 people. That number that may not sound high,
but it means that we have more than three times as many devices per
person as you will find in the United Kingdom or France, and almost four
times as many as in Canada. Only Japan, an MRI-happy outlier, has more.

Does not even Japan spend a lot less per person for healthcare than USA
spends? (And maybe MRI installations cost a lot less in Japan than in
USA.)

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- Don Klipstein )