Canada's Health Care System
1986; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 315; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1056/nejm198609183151238
ISSN1533-4406
Autores Tópico(s)Primary Care and Health Outcomes
ResumoThe health care systems of Western industrialized nations are shaped largely by a commitment to several essential but competing values: ready access, high quality, and reasonable cost. Canada has developed a provincially administered health insurance scheme that generally achieves all three of these goals, thus prompting the question: How has it accomplished this policy feat, particularly during an era in which the United States has placed its greatest emphasis on transforming the American delivery system according to market principles but has permitted the erosion of access to care for millions of uninsured citizens?The answer to this question derives from . . .
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