C.D. HOWE commentary - Going Dutch: Choice, Competition and

In the view of some domestic critics, our a health financing system that comes close to 5 A detailed survey of Canadian attitudes toward the healthcare system in the early 2000s is in a report to the Health Council of Canada (Soroka 2007), in which it is stated that for many Canadians, “publicly funded universal health care is one of the foremost policy features of the Canadian state.” 6 being a s. [...] The proposals draw on both the experience of the UK, which has long been a pioneer in the organization of primary care, and on the large literature that deals with the applications of the various innovations in the US. [...] The relatively good performance of the UK single-payer model seems due largely to a number of good (or lucky) decisions at the time the NHS was first established, rather than to a superior ability of the system to adapt to change over time.* * While she vividly describes the complicated politics of health system reform in the UK, Tuohy thinks of the UK reforms since the 1980s as quite substantial. [...] Part or consuming, however, meaning that a pluralistic all of any savings to the government could then mixed model of private-public competition must be be returned to the patients as an incentive to stay thought of as a long-term objective at best; in the with the alternative plans, or to the primary-care Netherlands, constructing the present one has taken doctors as year-end bonuses.28 The data. [...] In describing the debate that preceded the agreement to enter into a free-trade Reform to improve the performance of Canada’s agreement with the US in 1987, the late politician healthcare system can only happen as a result of Donald Macdonald referred to the decision decisions made by the politicians we have elected to by the Canadian government to proceed, as a form our federal and provincial gov.