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ReviewGlobal journal of health science2011

A case study and state of science review: private versus public healthcare financing.

Poongodi Sampath, Donna Wilson

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Review in Global journal of health science, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Poongodi SampathUniversity of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. sampath@ualberta.ca
Donna Wilson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medicare is a popular program in Canada that offers universal access to medically-necessary healthcare services for all Canadians through a public insurance plan in each province. In spite of its popularity, healthcare privatization has been debated, often over concerns about wait times for healthcare services. A case report focused on the 2005 Supreme Court's response to the "Chaoulli v. Quebec" challenge of the Quebec law banning the purchase of private health insurance for publicly-insured services is presented, along with findings from a state of science review to determine if there would be any benefit from adopting the United States model of private health insurance. This review reveals private health insurance would have significant negative implications, especially by creating inequity in healthcare access for low-income groups. Further study is needed to determine whether Canada's publicly-funded healthcare system would benefit in any way from increased private financing.

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MedicareNational Health ProgramsCanadaHealthcare DisparitiesHealth PolicyHumansInsurance, HealthOrganizational Case StudiesPrivate SectorPublic SectorSupreme Court DecisionsUnited StatesUniversal Health Insurance

Identifiers

PMID22980105
PMCPMC4777022

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