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PROFIT® and international healthcare systems
Opponents of public health care spent many years trying to convince Canadians that we should drop universal medicare and adopt the U.S. private-insurance model. It didn’t work. Now, PROFIT® proponents would now have you believe that the “European” model is the solution to all of Canada’s health care woes. The truth is, their arguments are riddled with misinformation.
Studying the Swedish, French and British health care systems can certainly help us as we seek out ways to improve the Canadian health care system, but as these examples also demonstrate, there isn’t one “European solution” that can be applied to Canadian health care problems. If the European examples prove anything, it is that publicly administered non-profit health care is the best way to ensure quality and timely care for patients.
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Medicare and the “European Model” (PDF)
Canadian Doctors for Medicare | 2006 |
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French Health Reform: 300,000 Uninsured
The Tyee | Tom Sandborn | April 5, 2006 |
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Swedes' U-Turn on Private Care
The Tyee | Tom Sandborn | March 20, 2006 |
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UK Health Chief Quits as System Plunges into Financial Crisis
The Tyee | Tom Sandborn | March 8, 2006 |
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Europe's Health Reforms: Hard Lessons
The Tyee | Tom Sandborn | March 8, 2006 |
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The UK Health Care Briefing Gordon Campbell Isn't Getting
The Tyee | Tom Sandborn | March 6, 2006 |
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Medicare: Living in the parallel universe in Australia: Public Medicare and private hospitals
Canadian Medical Association Journal | Stephen J. Duckett | September 27, 2005 |
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What are the equity, efficiency, cost containment and choice implications of private healthcare funding in western Europe? (PDF)
World Health Organization | July 2004 |
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The Patient is Dying
The Guardian | George Monbiot | September 30, 2003 |
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The Health Care System Under French National Health Insurance: Lessons for Health Reform in the U.S. (PDF)
American Journal of Public Health | Victor G. Rodwin | January 2003 |
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Insights From Health Care in Germany (PDF)
American Journal of Public Health | Christa Altenstetter | January 2003 |
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Voters reject Private Hospitals in Sweden
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Daniel Cohn | October 21, 2002 |
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Parallel Private Health Insurance in Australia: A Cautionary Tale and Lessons for Canada
Institute for the Study of Labor | Rhema Vaithianathan, Jeremiah E. Hurley, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark & Thomas F. Crossley | June 2002 |
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The NHS is being privatized
The Guardian | George Monbiot | December 21, 2001 |
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Condition critical: Two-tier hospitals are failing Australia (PDF)
The Toronto Star | Thomas Walkom | March 18, 2000 |
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