Dr. Wahn's conclusions are accurate, but he misses a major point. He states that physician
services increased 22.4% to compensate for a 15.9% reduction in the real value of their …

During its 4-month existence, Ontario's select committee on health care financing examined
189 written submissions and sat through 21 days of public hearings listening to 94 …

Abstract The Manitoba Medical Review Committee is a peer review body that monitors the
patterns of practice of the province's 1800 physicians in order to prevent and control …

budget overruns began looking in 1984 at the possi-cians. To many, the right to opt out of
the Medicare bility of private management of the Medicare plan. plan and to extra bill are …

The senior civil servants entrusted with interpreting and enforcing this legislation see it
differently. The new law does not endanger the free-enter-prise open market, they maintain" …

It is interesting to read Dr. Baltzan's confirmation that this is, in fact, an ideologic debate, and
that there should be no apology for it. Baltzan argues strongly and con-sistently on the basis …

Drastic restraint. Minister of Hospitals and Medical Care Marvin Moore suggested health
costs could be cut if patients paid their own medical bills and were reimbursed later:" In a …

The containment of health-care costs persists as a policy imperative, but the center of gravity
appears to be shifting away from regulatory procedures, such as health-care planning and …

Nobody who is familiar with the situation in Ontario could possibly agree with Goldman's
conclusion. Thepurpose of the strike by Ontario physicians was not simply to get the ban on …

In recent years the volume of economic re-search on urban physician decision making to
serve low-income and chronically ill patients has grown rapidly.'It is now clear that …