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Republicans rely on red herring in U.S. health care debate
My previous blog entry congratulated Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for making a serious health reform proposal in his presidential campaign. Well, it looks like I wasted your time because Gov. Walker, performing well below expectations ...
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Canadian Pharmacare: Performance, Incentives, and Insurance
This paper discusses differences between provincial drug plans with respect to breadth of coverage and cost sharing between patients and taxpayers, and introduces two new measurements to describe how provincial Pharmacare plans perform as insurers and how ...
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The Fantasy of Reference Pricing and the Promise of Choice in BC's Pharmacare
For defenders of government-run health care, the existence of provincial drug benefit plans is actually a blot on Canadian health care, in that they are not part of single-payer, first-dollar coverage, medicare (National Forum on Health, 1997:22). When ...
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The Romanow Commission: Tragedy of a One Man Band
That reports introduction reveals the futility of the task: a one-person, time-limited Commission cannot address every conceivable issue affecting the future of health care in Canada. Take one man, add a budget of over $15 million, solicit the ...