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The inefficiency of health care rationing--and a solution

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Henderson, David R.
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2013-10
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One of the main problems with a single-payer health care system, such as Canada's Medicare, is that it causes health care to be rationed. Under Medicare, the provincial governments negotiate physician compensation with provincial medical associations. The provincial governments typically fund hospitals by setting global budgets for government-run regional health authorities. For any medical care from doctors or hospitals that is covered by Medicare, the government-set price to beneficiaries is zero. The result is a shortage: at any given time, some patients want more medical care than is available. Therefore, medical care is rationed; people wait for medical services. Government funded systems typically use triage to ration access to services: the more serious the illness, all else equal, the shorter the wait. Nevertheless, there is a wait, and it is often substantial.
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This article is part of a larger work "Reducing wait times for health care: what Canada can learn from theory and international experience" edited by Steven Globerman for the Fraser Institute.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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