Canadian Doctors for Medicare

About Us Join CDM Visit our Blog Contact Us MQRP

---

CDM Media Release - Recent Reports Distort Canadians' Views on Health Care

June 7, 2010 - Reports on a recent Ipsos-Reid poll inaccurately suggest that Canadians have suddenly softened their support for Medicare. The reports badly distort the views of Canadians and poorly represent the actual results of the Ipsos-Reid survey. - More

Open letter to the Prime Minister

by Danielle Martin
In its recent budget, the Government of Quebec proposed introducing a "health deductible" that would cost mostresidents of Quebec $25 for every visit to a physician.

Two assumptions apparently underlie this proposal. First, the proposal assumes that a significant proportion of patients abuse the health care system. Second, the proposal assumes that the introduction of a user fee would reduce abuse and therefore save money. - More

---

BC Medicare Legal Cases

There are currently two important cases moving through the British Columbian court system that will decide on the legality of private clinics charging patients for receiving medically necessary services, and promising faster access in the private than in the public system. These cases have the potential to have far-reaching consequences across Canada if the ruling favours the private clinics. At the same time, the cases offer the opportunity for the courts to reaffirm the legitimacy, importance and constitutionality of our public health care system. - More

---

My Better Medicare

August 19th, 2009 - CDM joins with Health Nexus and Nurses for Medicare in launching the My Better Medicare project. The My Better Medicare campaign will build on our high quality, accessible, universal public health care system by disseminating documented examples of innovations that enhance patient care or the effectiveness of service. More

Visit the My Better Medicare Web Site at mybettermedicare.ca

---

Health Care Delivery Assessment Tool

Canadian Doctors for Medicare (CDM) has developed a tool for assessing proposed models of health care delivery based on the most effective health care practices. This tool is designed to assist physicians, policy makers and health administrators in making sound choices about what health care models they should pursue, based on sound criteria rooted in effective clinical practice. - More

---

Innovations in Medicare

Across Canada, there are dozens of innovative projects that are improving access, quality and cost-effectiveness while maintaining or even improving equity.

Read about successful Medicare innovations
Here

---

How the U.S. measures up to Canada's health care system

In this extended interview, Uwe Reinhardt, a leading adviser on health care economics and professor of political economy at Princeton University, compares the Canadian and American health care systems. More

---

Understanding Health Care "Privatization"

To understand privatization we need to distinguish between who pays for health care and who delivers health care. The delivery side is confusing because people often refer to "public" when they mean "private, not-for-profit."
More

---

On Health Care Financing

"The common argument that countries 'cannot afford' to meet growing needs for health care through tax financing, and must therefore draw in other sources of finance, makes no economic sense.
More

---

Visit U.S. Physicians for a National Health Program


Visit Nurses for Medicare

<--#set var="output" value="text" --> There have been<--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/hwcncount" -->
This web site is maintained by the Canadian Doctors for Medicare.