Canada's Health Care System

Jk, Iglehart

doi:10.1056/nejm198612183152531

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“…Physicians are paid on a fee-for-service basis according to a schedule negotiated annually by the Ontario Ministry of Health and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA). 13 Throughout most of the OHIP's history, physicians were permitted to "opt out" of the plan, thereby gaining the option to "extra-bill" their patients at rates of their own choosing (and presumably higher than those allowed by the provincial fee schedule). This …”

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Risk factors associated with participation in the Ontario, Canada doctors' strike.

Kravitz¹,

Shapiro²,

Linn³

et al. 1989

Am J Public Health

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To identify factors associated with participation in the 1986 Ontario, Canada doctors' strike, we surveyed 1,028 physicians; 69 percent responded, of whom 42 percent participated in the strike. Risk factors for participation included income greater than $135,000, being a surgeon or gynecologist, having previously "opted out" of the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, being professionally dissatisfied, being politically conservative, favoring political activism by physicians, holding a positive view of the social consequences of extrabilling, and perceiving family, associates, patients and the public to favor the strike.

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Risk factors associated with participation in the Ontario, Canada doctors' strike.

Kravitz¹,

Shapiro²,

Linn³

et al. 1989

Am J Public Health

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“…have accepted the principles of public, or social, insurance over those of commercial insurance [1][2][3]. With public insurance, costs are spread across all groups, regardless of age or sex composition or morbidity experience.…”

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Eugene J. Keefe Memorial Lecture. The Canadian health care system: an overview.

Zylak

1993

American Journal of Roentgenology

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“…In one published study, Kravitz and colleagues (1989) found that only about half of physicians participated in the 23-day 1986 Ontario strike to protest the government' s ban on extra billing. This action did not gain widespread public support nor was it successful in averting the ban (Iglehart 1986;Silversides 1986). …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%