Private Health Care Funding - Myths and Realities
Below is a list of articles that identify problems with private for-profit health care funding. Click on the titles.
- Mythbusting Canadian Health Care - Part 1; by Sara Robinson
- The Health Care System Under French National Health Insurance: Lessons for Health Reform in the United States
- Insights From Health Care in Germany
- Parallel Private Health Insurance in Australia: A Cautionary Tale and Lessons for Canada
- Condition critical: Where two-tier hospitals are failing Australia
- What are the equity, efficiency, cost containment and choice implications of private health-care funding in western Europe?
- The high costs of for-profit care - Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein - Canadian Medical Association Journal - June 2004
- "Mythbusters" by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
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Myth - User fees would stop waste and ensure better use of the health care system
Myth - For-profit ownership would lead to a more efficient health care system
Myth - A parallel private system would reduce waiting times in the public system
Myth - Canada has a communist-style health care system
Myth - Canadian doctors are leaving for the United States in droves
