A Review of the Canadian National Health Insurance


 

Publication Date: June 1979

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Cotton M. Lindsay

Research Area: Health

Keywords: Social security

Type: Report

Coverage: Canada

Abstract:

Our long-run analysis of the influence of Canadian NHI on access to medical care through the locational and career decisions of physicians in Canada suggests that its effects may be quite remote from the intentions of the legislation.