CDM Bulletins on Medicare

  1. The Sustainability of Medicare - Simply shifting costs from governments to individuals does not make a healthcare system sustainable, even if it helps governments "control" spending. It simply downloads the cost of health care to individuals.
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  2. International Health Systems - What Canadian Health Care Can Really Learn from Europe and Beyond -
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  3. The Chaoulli Decision -
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  4. Activity-based funding in Canadian Hospitals and other Surgical Facilities - Canadian Doctors for Medicare Position
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"There is overwhelming evidence that direct charges such as user fees put the heaviest burden on the poor and impede their access to necessary health care."
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The crisis in public confidence.[in Medicare]..is being fuelled by quite different messages:

We can no longer afford Medicare.

The principles on which the system is based are no longer relevant.

Moving more of the delivery of care to private, for-profit companies will lead to a more accessible and less costly system.



Each of these claims is demonstrably false.

Evans and Barer, 2001