Cost Control in a Parallel Universe: Medicare Spending in the United States and Canada
Open Access
- 10 December 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 172 (22), 1764-1766
- https://doi.org/10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.272
Abstract
As the United States was implementing Medicare in 1966, Canada was phasing in its own Medicare program, which covered all Canadians under provincially administered plans. While these provincial plans varied, all incorporated significant payment reforms—global budgeting of hospitals and stringent capital expenditure controls—and banned copayments and deductibles.Keywords
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