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Publication Date: February 1992
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Edmund F. Haislmaier
Research Area: Health
Keywords: Health care
Type: Report
Coverage: Canada
Abstract:
As Canadians increasingly debate the future of their health system and wonder how long it can survive in its present structure, the lesson for America should be clear. The existence of an ideal health system that offers unlimited, “free†government-funded medical care, while simultaneously limiting health spending without restricting patient choice or provider decision making, is a myth. If it ever did exist in Canada, it does not any more. Pursuing the ephemeral mirage of a government-run health care Utopia, never will lead to a high quality, low cost health system in America or anywhere else.