Posted AT 6:49 PM EDT on 15/08/07
What Canadians should learn from the U.S. health care disaster
The Canadian Medical Association has recently recommended that private competition be introduced into medicare by allowing physicians to bill patients (or private insurance plans) for services that are covered by medicare, and allowing medicare to purchase covered services from for-profit private facilities.
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