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British Columbia
Nanaimo hospital botched bug battle
Arrests Under Secret Temporary New Law
Canadian church tried to keep abuse scandal secret
Toronto Hospital to Encrypt Laptops
When it comes to health care, think outside box
Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto will install full-disk encryption software on more than 200 laptop computers that clinicians,
researchers and staff members use.
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Newfoundland: Where did the doctors go? A study of retention and migration of provisionally licensed international medical
graduates practising in Newfoundland and Labrador between 1995 and 2006
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Costs of Health Care Administration in the United
States and Canada
| To the Editor: There is little doubt that per capita
health care administrative costs are lower in Canada than in the United States, as Woolhandler et al.
report (Aug. 21 issue),1 even though the precise magnitude of the gap is open to debate,
a point that Aaron makes in his accompanying editorial.2 However, the Canadian single-payer system results in chronic shortages
of medical services because of underfunding. The underfunding problem is usually considered to be a separate
issue from the single-payer system itself,2 but the very structure of the single-payer system may cause
the problem.
In the United States, persons who wish to spend more on health care
than the norm have a simple way of doing so: they can purchase premium private medical insurance. Notwithstanding
the Medicare prescription-drug plans currently being discussed, it is generally not an option in the
United States to increase medical expenditures through the taxation system, given contemporary political and
fiscal constraints. In Canada, however, increases in medical expenditures are possible largely only through
the taxation system. And even if, as some surveys suggest, most Canadians are willing to spend more
on health care,3 taxpayers cannot be sure that any given tax increase will
actually go to health care expenditures. Therefore, Canadian taxpayers generally resist tax increases,
and underfunding and chronic shortages result.
Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Cambridge,
MA 02138
jasjeet_sekhon@harvard.edu
Stopping Treatment
What America Needs To Learn From Canadian Medicare
Feminisation of Medicine
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