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	Publicly-funded health care - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Systems may be funded from general government revenues (as in Italy and Canada), or through a government social security system (as in France, Belgium, Japan, and Germany) with a separate budget and hypothecated taxes.
		Publicly funded medicine may be administered and provided by the government, as in the United Kingdom; in some systems, though, medicine is publicly funded but most health providers are private entities, as in Canada.
		According to a 2000 study of the World Health Organization [12], publicly funded systems of industrial nations spend less on health care, both as a percentage of their GDP and per capita, and enjoy superior population-based health care outcomes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Publicly_funded_medicine (3441 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Publicly funded medicine is a level of 8 medical service that 0 is administered and 0 provided by the 8 government and paid wholly 0 or in majority 3 part by public 7 funds (taxes).
		Publicly funded medicine 2 is often referred 5 to as "socialized medicine" by its opponents.
		Another group of 4 critics opposes publicly funded 3 medicine on doctrinal 7 grounds, espousing the view 7 that the government has 9 no place in health care much less mandating 8 and managing it.
	www.thehealthinsurance.net /publicly_funded_medicine_.htm (1008 words)

	Congressman Jim McDermott - Speeches - U.S. Auto Industry Supports Universial Healthcare... in Canada
		Publicly funded health care thus accounts for a significant portion of Canada's overall labour cost advantage in auto assembly, versus the U.S., which in turn has been a significant factor in maintaining and attracting new auto investment to Canada.
		For both employers and workers in the auto industry, it is vitally important that the publicly funded health care system be preserved and renewed, on the existing principles of universality, accessibility, portability, comprehensiveness, and public administration.
		The system needs a secure multi-year funding base from government, and must be expanded to cover an updated range of services (including prescription drugs and home care services) that reflects both the evolving nature of medical science and the emerging needs of our population.
	www.house.gov /mcdermott/sp051215a.shtml (1289 words)

	Guardian \| In the health trade
		Healthcare services are thought to amount to about 10% of the EU's GDP, so the potential for private companies to make profits from healthcare is vast.
		Under the proposed "country of origin principle", European healthcare companies providing services in the UK on a temporary basis - such as mobile treatment units, or providers of homecare workers - would not be required to meet the standards of the Healthcare Commission or the Commission for Social Care Inspection.
		The Department of Trade and Industry has stated that it does not want to deny market opportunities to private healthcare providers and says there is no clear definition of "publicly funded healthcare" in EU law.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5107457-106710,00.html (842 words)

	BioWorld Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		VICTORIA, British Columbia - The author of a report on Canada's healthcare system is accusing the premier of Alberta of a "radical" departure from commitments his government made last September concerning the reform of the country's healthcare system.
		Publicly funded universal healthcare has held sway in Canada since the late 1960s and is based on the Medicare system that originated in Romanow's home province of Saskatchewan.
		The one group in Canada routinely skewered over its alleged preoccupation with funding is Canadian physicians, who commonly complain that reforming Canadian health- care is pointless without a sufficient injection of money to provide the supports that health care professionals need to treat their patients.
	www.bioworld.com /servlet/com.accumedia.web.Dispatcher?next=bioWorldHeadlines_article&forceid=34739 (1052 words)

	RAND \| News & Events \| Commentary
		Funded in part with public funds from property taxes and a half-percent sales tax, the Public Health Trust is the county's public safety-net provider.
		RAND was asked by Community Voices Miami, an initiative funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to improve access to healthcare for the underinsured and uninsured in the county, to examine the governance of public funds for healthcare in Miami-Dade.
		Improvement in the governance and, by extension, the operation of publicly funded healthcare facilities is possible.
	www.rand.org /commentary/061003TMH.html (737 words)

	The Downward Spiral of Healthcare
		Healthcare organizations keep on average 38% of the premium while only 62% actually goes toward medical costs.
		Another startling fact about the downward spiral of healthcare is that physicians in some cases receive more compensation from seeing a patient who receives publicly funded healthcare than some HMO patients.
		This is a disturbing trend given that approximately ten years ago, physicians made enough in their regular private practice to afford to see some pubilc healthcare recipients.
	www.vaagelaw.com /NewsArticles/NA053020031220.asp (888 words)

	Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care - Public Information - Business Plan 2002-2003
		The ministry's mission is to respond to these concerns by advancing healthcare and enhancing physical and mental health in all of life's stages, through a high-quality, publically funded system that is accessible to all Ontarians.
		Advancing healthcare, and enhancing physical and mental health in all life's stages, through a high-quality system that is easily accessible for all Ontarians.
		Funding for emergency health services was provided to municipalities through grants to buy land ambulance vehicles and equipment and to train paramedics in the new Canadian Triage Acuity Scale, which was implemented province-wide to ensure emergency room staff and paramedics can use a common language to describe the degree of patient illness or injury.
	www.health.gov.on.ca /english/public/pub/ministry_bplans/bplan02/bplan02.html (7118 words)

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		Healthcare is the number one source of bankruptcy in the United States.
		A gentleman asked whether a publicly funded healthcare system was worth the trade off of only providing a minimal amount of care.
		We cannot provide healthcare to everyone, but the most practical way to get coverage for the most people is though both the public and the private systems.
	www.yale.edu /ypu/minutes/ypu02232006.doc (2954 words)

	Creating a Sustainable Healthcare System for the New Millennium
		CHA is pleased to outline for the Committee why funding for a sustainable, publicly funded healthcare system must be part of the 2000 federal budget.
		Fourth, the unplanned privatization of healthcare reduces governments’ ability to maintain national standards and weakens your ability to direct how healthcare funds are spent.
		Also, targeted funding for healthcare can be more effective in enhancing quality of life than tax cuts.
	www.cha.ca /documents/budgets/prebud2000presconf.htm (964 words)

	ULP Research Report: Coordinating Publicly Funded Healthcare Coverage for Children
		The law allows States to use their Federal SCHIP funds to cover children who were not already eligible for Medicaid by either expanding Medicaid, creating a separate child health program, or adopting a combination of these two approaches.
		Congress specifically required States that use their SCHIP funds to create separate child health programs to screen all children applying for coverage for Medicaid eligibility and to devise systems to enroll Medicaid-eligible children in Medicaid.
		In a well-coordinated system, one application process serves all children, and the decision about the appropriate program or funding source for a particular child is made behind the scenes.
	www.ahcpr.gov /news/ulp/making/ulplink.htm (1662 words)

	Where the candidates stand
		Democrats and Republicans alike believe that further healthcare reforms are necessary, therefore it remains a determining issue in the 2004 election.
		Ensuring that all Americans have access to healthcare is no easy task and each candidate has put forth a set of proposals designed to appeal to the public’s concerns about this issue.
		The Bush/Cheney plan reduces the rising cost of healthcare; provides affordable coverage to those who need it most—low-income children and families, small businesses, the self-employed, and people who do not get health benefits through their job; and improves healthcare information, quality, and safety.
	www.entnet.org /advocacy/Where-the-candidates-stand.cfm?renderforprint=1& (549 words)

	Copeman Healthcare Centre - Corporate Members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Copeman went on to explain that his motivation for establishing the Copeman Healthcare Centre was to make a valuable contribution to society through healthcare innovation, and in particular by demonstrating the long term benefits of comprehensive, individualized preventive health programs.
		This is because we live in a time when the cost of delivering optimal healthcare has outstripped our ability to pay for it within a universal, publicly funded system, Dr. House explained.
		Copeman Healthcare Centres are advanced primary care facilities providing general family healthcare and comprehensive programs for disease prevention and management.
	www.copemanhealthcare.com /news.htm (667 words)

	Healthcare Market Review
		The historical developments of European healthcare systems has led to a rather disparate array of VHI markets and, despite the introduction of the European Union's third non-life insurance directive, cross-border insurer activity can be challenging and potentially ineffective, if choosing to rely on 'Freedom to Provide Services' legislation.
		Universal, or near-universal, healthcare provision funded by the state or social insurance, is an underlying principle in the vast majority of European countries.
		Factors such as increasingly stable and growing economies, increasing consumer sophistication and wealth, expanding private healthcare facilities and social security/healthcare reforms are all contributing to this growing interest.
	www.watsonwyatt.com /europe/pubs/healthcare/render2.asp?ID=15923 (1034 words)

	Advancing healthcare for Canadians
		Sufficient and long-term funding for healthcare is urgently needed from federal, provincial and territorial governments," noted CHA President Sharon Sholzberg-Gray.
		Healthcare providers are an integral part of the healthcare system, and there must be an adequate number of a broad range of providers.
		Our publicly funded healthcare system adds to our productivity by contributing to not only our competitiveness but also our quality of life, employment rates, economic development (through research and innovation), and a healthy population, and workforce.
	www.cha.ca /documents/Framework.html (513 words)

	GWVRP Forums - VA Diverted Healthcare Funds for Illegal Studies
		Funds were diverted from veterans’ healthcare to pay for studies on outsourcing jobs and closing VA hospitals – The dismantling of the VA is leading to privatization
		Between 2001 and 2004 the VA illegally diverted funds earmarked for veterans’ healthcare to pay for studies on outsourcing jobs at VA facilities and to fund other studies on closing VA hospitals.
		During the time VA officials were misappropriating funds they were working with Republicans in Congress to try to change the 1981 law that they were breaking.
	www.gulfweb.org /fusetalk/messageview.cfm?catid=9&threadid=321 (867 words)

	Is Reproductive Rights Healthcare Access a "Consumer Rights" Issue?
		Recent anthropological research on the US healthcare system has explored the further stratification of access to healthcare through the commodification of public resour-ces under neoliberalism.
		Growing interest in alternative healthcare among medical institutions and private corporations, however, has also promoted the development of high-end midwifery services, which advertise personalized care to women who can pay out-of-pocket or through insurance coverage that includes midwifery care.
		The increasing commodification of healthcare services throughout the world will continue to force us—along with other reproductive rights advocates—to interrogate both the possibilities and limitations of market-based activist strategies.
	www.aaanet.org /press/an/0501craven.htm (1362 words)

	Democrats.com
		She has no healthcare coverage of her own and had to sue her former partner to have him cover their children under his plan.
		When the first publicly funded healthcare legislation in North America was passed in our province of Saskatchewan in 1960 (by a premier who was the grandfather of your Kiefer Sutherland), your government actually complained to the government of Canada that we were turning communist!
		From time to time funding has been a problem because medical care and hospitalization costs are steep (although nothing compared to yours), and we are constantly fiddling with it.
	archive.democrats.com /view2.cfm?id=9448 (1155 words)

	Healthcare
		New Zealand's healthcare system is funded mainly through general taxation.
		If you meet the criteria, your partner and children aged 19 years or under will also be eligible for publicly funded healthcare.
		The government does not fund the public health system generously enough to allow most hospital treatments, other than accident/emergency care, to be carried out immediately.
	www.psych-recruitment.com /nz_healthcare.htm (1167 words)

	cmaj.ca -- eLetters for , 171 (6) 541
		Some would argue that a privately funded emergency clinic would result in timely care to those in need of urgent medical care, and who would otherwise not receive as prompt care if they were to attend our publicly funded emergency rooms.
		The fact that someone pays for healthcare needs is already in place, as 30% of medical expenditure is privately funded through out of pocket.
		Should we allow for private emergency clinics to mushroom, a decline of public healthcare professionals would ensue to the point where there would be under-staffed and overwhelmed healthcare providers for the publicly funded healthcare system, while those who can afford private clinics will receive well-staffed and prompt care.
	www.cmaj.ca /cgi/eletters/171/6/541 (316 words)

	Making reforms less injurious to health
		functioning publicly-funded healthcare system for a good majority of the people should be a cornerstone of development policy in a poor country.
		The latter account for 85 per cent of public expenditure on healthcare, of which of course 80 per cent goes in paying salaries of government healthcare personnel.
		All this should indicate that if you really want to have a rural healthcare programme, then common sense and a minimum administrative experience will be enough to outline most of its contours.
	www.rediff.com /money/2005/apr/20guest2.htm (1035 words)

	Dismantling VA
		VA is a large-scale, publicly funded healthcare system that works: VA works so well it has been used as a model to push the case for nationalized healthcare; something that strikes fear in the heart of every Republican.
		Recent studies by the Rand Corporation and the University of Michigan, working with UCLA, prove the point that VA is efficient and provides healthcare that meets the highest standards.
		The study, with VA healthcare funds going to private consultants, could cost over $140 million and lead to the loss of up to 36,000 VA jobs.
	www.military.com /opinion/0,15202,77901,00.html (982 words)

	A Leftist Youth Journal Based in the U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		And when up against other nations with publicly funded healthcare systems U.S. manufacturers just can't compete.
		Publicly funded healthcare reduces companies' share of health costs.
		Both U.S. and Canadian governments spend approximately the same on healthcare - in 2001, north-of-the-border governments spent 7 per cent of GDP while American governments spent 6.7 per cent.
	www.lefthook.org /Politics/Engler032704.html (755 words)

	GM's Healthcare Double Standard -- In These Times
		General Motors executives say soaring health costs in their U.S. plants are forcing them to seek health benefits give-backs from unionized workers, yet they insist national healthcare is not an appropriate solution for America.
		Indeed, with the provinces sharing 75 percent of the cost of Canadian healthcare, it’s no surprise that GM, Ford and Chrysler have all been shifting car production across the border at such a rate that the name “Motor City” should belong to Windsor, not Detroit.
		Before long, healthcare benefits in the United States will be the exception, not the rule.
	www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/article/2081 (1178 words)

	THE DEVELOPMENT OF CALIFORNIA’S PUBLICLY FUNDED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The hope of deinstitutionalization was that persons with mental illness would be able to live in their own communities with family and friends, supported by local services, including short-term hospitalization when necessary.
		The current level of funding to mental health is estimated to be less than half that which is needed to provide a basic level of care for the existing mentally ill population.
		While there have been some efforts to capture clearly eligible federal funds with changes to the structure of the state’s mental health and public health programs, it is clear that California is still only receiving about half as much federal money to support its mental health programs as are most other states.
	www.cccmha.org /MHAHSTRY.htm (2248 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		We believe there is considerable scope for ‘back office’ management efficiencies that would enable a higher proportion of healthcare resources to be devoted to front-line patient care and to the procurement and operation of the latest diagnostic and treatment technologies where under-investment has contributed to the well-documented current deficiencies.
		While most witnesses agreed with the need for increased funding to the healthcare system, there was disagreement about the best way to fund such an increase.
		The NSAHO argued that healthcare funding allocations to provinces should reflect the underlying demographics of provinces.
	www.parl.gc.ca /infocomdoc/37/2/fina/studies/reports/finarp02/16-chap6-e.htm (2312 words)

	State of Wisconsin: MEDDIC-MS and MEDDIC-MS SSI Medicaid Managed Care Performance Measures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This need is particularly acute in large, publicly funded programs such as Medicaid, which deliver healthcare services using a managed care delivery system.
		The IOM noted that these qualities are of particular importance to publicly funded healthcare delivery systems such as state Medicaid programs.
		publicly reports a more robust set of performance measures than any other state Medicaid managed care program with 59 indicators, including MCO accreditation status for its Medicaid/BadgerCare HMO program and 34 measures for its SSI managed care program serving disabled individuals.
	www.healthtransformation.net /Transforming_Examples/Transforming_Examples_Resource_Center/1599.cfm (1324 words)

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