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- Title: Have We Traded Away the Opportunity for Innovative Health Care Reform? the Implications of the NAFTA for Medicare (Canada)
- Author : McGill Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 383 KB
Description
The integrity of medicare depends on governments having flexibility to respond to the changing dynamics of the health care system, This article concludes that the North American Free Trade Agreement ("NAFTA") has potential to place constraints on the ability of Canadian federal and provincial governments to regulate freely. The health care system is a mix of public and private interests. At its core. "medically necessary hospital and "medically required" physician services are fully publicly financed, but often privately delivered. However, private Financing is funding an increasing number of important goods and services such as chug therapy. Various proposals have been made for the reform of the health care system, including national insurance programs for pillion thugs and home cote, and this article assesses some of these proposals in light of the NAFTA.