PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - C. Gray TI - The private sector invades medicare's home town DP - 1998 Jul 28 TA - Canadian Medical Association Journal PG - 165--167 VI - 159 IP - 2 4099 - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/159/2/165.short 4100 - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/159/2/165.full SO - CMAJ1998 Jul 28; 159 AB - If Canada's medicare system has a home town it is probably Ottawa, where the system was first welded together 30 years ago. Charlotte Gray reports that there is a certain irony now that examples of private health care are sprouting up in the nations's capital.