Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model

Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model - Yahoo! News
"British Columbia is replacing block grants to hospitals with fee-for-procedure payments and Quebec has a new flat health tax and a proposal for payments on each medical visit -- an idea that critics say is an illegal user fee.

And a few provinces are also experimenting with private funding for procedures such as hip, knee and cataract surgery."

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