The alluring myth of private medicine.

M Gordon, PB Berger - CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association …, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Canada's medicare system has provided Canadians with high-quality health care for almost
three decades. Now Canadian health care appears to be at risk of losing the single-payer …

The benefits of privatization.

V Dirnfeld - CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The promise of a universal, comprehensive, publicly funded system of medical care that was
the foundation of the Medical Care Act passed in 1966 is no longer possible. Massive …

[PDF][PDF] The case for increased privatization of Canadian health care

E Coffey - McGill journal of medicine, 2008 - mjm.mcgill.ca
76 McGill Journal of Medicine 2008 not endanger the integrity of the public system, it is
incumbent upon Quebec and the other provinces with similar legislation to immediately …

[HTML][HTML] Privatizing health care is not the answer: lessons from the United States

M Angell - CMAJ, 2008 - Can Med Assoc
There are strong moves within Canada to make the Canadian health care system more like
the US system by partially privatizing it. Those who favour this approach claim that the US …

It's time for CMA to put the lid on privatization.

C Carver - CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Family physician Cynthia Carver wasn't heartened by the CMA's" last-minute
retreat" from a call to pursue privatization of health care. During its August annual meeting …

[HTML][HTML] Should Canadian physicians support parallel private health care?

S Bhatia, A Natsheh - CMAJ, 2005 - Can Med Assoc
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj. 051137 one; even in 1996, CMA Past President Jack Armstrong
recognized that “if [the CMA] is the first out of the trenches for private funding for core …

Setting the record straight on private health care

N Esmail - 2006 - policycommons.net
The results of several votes at the Canadian Medical Association s annual meeting last
week--including votes to install Dr. Brian Day as President-Elect and to support a greater …

[PDF][PDF] Healthcare in Canada: Privatization and how to contain it

C Forbes, E Tsang - UBC Medical Journal, 2012 - med-fom-ubcmj.sites.olt.ubc.ca
UBCMJ| SEPTEMBER 2012 4 (1)| www. ubcmj. com 5 keep healthcare public, Canadians
will have to be comfortable with a system that does not provide low-yield medical treatment …

The privatization of medical care--caveat medicus!

GA Silver - Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1985 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
For a long time the influence of medicine on economics has held the centre ofthe stage:
inflation ofcost, impact on social expenditures, and resulting inequities in services and …

Private health care dominates meeting as general council calls for national debate on issue.

P Sullivan - CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The CMA's General Council has decided to withhold its stamp of approval for a"
private parallel" health care system by voting against a motion to remove legislative barriers …