Some of the most savvy consumers of American healthcare (or of healthcare in any country) are spousal caregivers. All too often illness or disability renders their partner less able to deal with the multitude of decisions to make, costs to bear, doctors and hospitals to visit... and on and on the merry-go-round goes.

So in steps the spousal caregiver to help their ill spouse... For example, in this Reading Room section a WSA member presents her own personal comparison of the Canadian and American healthcare systems. Because her husband had Canadian citizenship, she was able to arrange healthcare for him there, once his Alzheimer's Disease moved in to disrupt their life together totally.