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	Publicly-funded health care - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Health care in publicly-funded systems is provided primarily by public-sector practitioners in some countries and private-sector practitioners in others[4].
		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.
		Private health care continued parallel to the NHS, paid for largely by private insurance, but it is used only by a small percentage of the population, and generally as a top-up to NHS services.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Publicly_funded_medicine (3463 words)

	Universal health care - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Universal health care is a health care system in which all residents of a geographic or political entity have their health care paid for, regardless of medical condition or financial status.
		Universal health care systems vary in what services are covered completely, covered partially, or not covered at all.
		In some countries, all citizens or legal residents are eligible to free health care and health funding is either tax-based or based on an insurance system with universial coverage with supplementary public contributions for those unable to pay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Universal_health_care (868 words)

	National Single Payer FAQ
		Publicly financed, universal health insurance provides free choice of care giver, ensures the right of care giver and patients to determine the most appropriate health care for them, ensures the continuity and confidentiality of care, and facilitates access to health care.
		Publicly funded, universal health insurance is democratic precisely because it returns the right of influence and participation to those very individuals, groups, health care givers, health care organizations, health care recipients, and businesses, which are directly affected by health care insurance.
		Health care givers are very unhappy under managed care, a system that increases their overhead and hassle, reduces their income, and takes decision making away from them.
	cthealth.server101.com /national_single_payer_faq1.htm (5028 words)

	2002_04 \| Universal Care Making Rounds In State Houses and on Ballots
		Reform advocates say the same frustration with rising health care costs is adding new life to a movement largely dormant since the Clinton administration's push in the early '90s ended in fiasco.
		This time, though, activists say their best chance to move universal care forward is with state legislatures, and they've begun pressing to make universal care a leading issue for candidates to address.
		Much of the Maine campaign centered on the rising cost of health care, featuring self-employed business people who were having a hard time providing coverage for their families.
	www.managedcaremag.com /archives/0204/0204.regulation.html (1170 words)

	wcr:03/11/2002 -- Churches team up to support public health care
		A meeting of religious leaders, health care providers and representatives of social justice groups was held on Parliament Hill Feb. 28, the first since 1965, when the churches hosted a similar gathering supportive of the federal government's plans for the universal, publicly-funded health care system that has since been implemented.
		The churches' Roundtable on the Future of Health Care in Canada, convened by the ecumenical health care network of the Canadian Council of Churches (CCC), was part of a larger strategy of the churches to organize workshops across Canada to help people play a role in the unfolding national debate.
		They include in a list of perceived "threats" to the health care system, the "failure" of the federal government to respond to the growth of "two-tier" health care in some provinces where pressure is strong to allow for-profit health care providers.
	www.wcr.ab.ca /news/2002/0311/publichealth031102.shtml (873 words)

	Editorial: Nursing's Ethos of Caring and Its Support
		Canadians' commitment to a publicly funded universal health-care system was re-affirmed when they went to the polls this past June and re-elected a government that they believed would preserve the current system and prevent the creation of a two-tiered system: one for the rich and the one for the rest of society.
		And yet despite the deplorable working conditions under which they care for patients and their families, nurses have remained steadfast in their support of a single-tiered, nationally funded health-care system.
		Caring has been nursing's banner, and, for many, caring and nursing are synonymous.
	www.cjnr.nursing.mcgill.ca /archive/36/36_3_edit.htm (1077 words)

	Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care - Speeches - Transforming Health Care in Ontario
		Among health care workers, nurses are at the greatest risk of workplace illness or injury.
		Having clear rules for how hospitals are funded is an essential part of ensuring that they are given the resources to actually deliver on the requirements set out in their agreements.
		Health care is a $28 billion dollar pie, stretched out across an unimaginable number of boundaries.
	health.gov.on.ca /english/media/speeches/archives/sp_04/sp_022404.html (5039 words)

	Investing in a Stronger Society: Sustaining and Improving Canada's Health Care System (Budget 1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Canadians want their publicly funded universal health care system preserved because they know it has served them and their families well.
		Among its conclusions is the finding that Canada's health care system is fundamentally sound and adequately funded, but that resources could be used more effectively and efficiently.
		Funds will be allocated to provinces and territories on an equal-per-capita basis; decisions regarding expenditures will be made jointly by Canada's ministers of health.
	www.fin.gc.ca /budget97/fact/healfte.html (567 words)

	Rutland Herald: Rutland Vermont News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		By publicly funding our health care, we allow businesses to concentrate on what they are here to do: produce the most competitive goods and services available, rather than to worry about administering and managing their employees' health care.
		They realize that, like education, health care is something all citizens must have access to if your country is going to have a successful and productive population.
		Finally, conservative opponents of publicly financed health care often point to both Canada and Europe as reasons we should not move to a publicly funded health care system in Vermont.
	www.rutlandherald.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050804/NEWS/508040316/1039 (858 words)

	Letting the health-care genie out of the bottle @ workopolis.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		They want a strong publicly funded medicare system but they also want the ability to get care in a private system when the public system fails them, usually by failing to provide care promptly.
		By 1955, Paul Martin Sr., health and welfare minister at the time, created a national hospital insurance plan; he made that announcement right after attending a CMA general council, where he was urged to extend insurance to doctors' services.
		They embraced private health care with trepidation, not enthusiasm, and they were clear that private care will not be a panacea.
	www.workopolis.com /servlet/Content/qprinter/20050819/DOCTORS19 (787 words)

	Edited Hansard * 1045 * Number 061 (Official Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		But let no member of the House use the excuse of cowardice or dithering or delaying to fail to stand in his or her place today to support the NDP opposition motion that is before us to strengthen and preserve through change the health care system for which Canadians have worked so hard.
		Anybody who imagines that Mike Harris is on the side of universal public health care simply has not been watching what has been going on in this country and in the province of Ontario for the last five years.
		Universal public health care is the defining characteristic of Canada.
	www.parl.gc.ca /36/2/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/061_2000-03-02/han061_1045-e.htm (450 words)

	Universal Health Care: Topics in the News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Kerry was less clear on [his preferences regarding] the Clinton health care plan--involving unprecedented government intervention in the health markets--to dramatically expand insurance coverage.
		And in fact, this is one of those issues where we have to move towards universal health care for everybody, single pair system.
		We need universal health care which is accessible, affordable, with quality care, and relying on preventive health.
	www.issues2000.org /News_Universal_Health_Care.htm (3647 words)

	Ohio AFL-CIO endorses single payer! \| Physicians for a National Health Program
		WHEREAS, health care premiums increased an average of 11% in 2001 and are projected to increase by 14% or more in 2002.
		Health care providers such as hospitals, clinics and nursing homes are caught between higher health care costs for their employees and reimbursements which all too often do not cover their real costs; and
		WHEREAS, the Ohio AFL-CIO recognizes that there is a growing crisis in health care in the United states, manifested by massive layoffs, a steep increase in premiums co-payments and deductibles, and the closing of many health care facilities serving low-to-middle income residents, thereby, constituting a need for swift action.
	www.pnhp.org /news/2002/september/ohio_aflcio_endorse.php (683 words)

	International Market Research - Ontario's Publicly Funded Health Care Market (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Increased federal funding over the next three years, as recommended by Roy Romanow, head of the commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, will bode well for U.S. suppliers of medical equipment and services.
		In Ontario the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care oversees healthcare for the province.
		Private health insurance in Ontario provides supplemental benefits that are either partially or completely absent from OHIP such as dental benefits, vision care, prescription drugs, and semi-private rooms in hospitals.
	strategis.ic.gc.ca /epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/en/gr109719e.html (2271 words)

	David Cobb on Health Care (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The World Health Organization ranked the US health care system 37th in the world despite our spending more per capita than any country in the world.
		It has been shown to lower overall health care spending by lowering administrative costs and the cost of prescription drugs.
		It's been shown to substantially improve of the health of the citizens in countries that have used it, as a direct result of providing access to medical care.
	www.issues2000.org /2004/David_Cobb_Health_Care.htm (202 words)

	Celebrating 40 years of medicare in Newfoundland
		He received the full benefit of the country's universal, publicly-funded health care system during the 18-month period he spent in hospital and rehabilitation centres in Newfoundland and Ontario.
		The national campaign by NUPGE and its components across the country is designed to demonstrate to the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada that universal medicare should be maintained and enhanced.
		Smith drew a startling comparison between Canada's health care system and the one that exists in the U.S., where one of his family members recently spent 4 1/2 days in a Florida hospital and was billed nearly $100,000.
	www.nupge.ca /news_2002/news_oc02/n02oc02d.htm (384 words)

	Lobby Days 2004 :: American Medical Student Association
		On the state level, we'll be advocating for comprehensive health care for all Ohioans.
		We plan to let our legislators know that AMSA believes in publicly funded universal health care, and we will share with them several approaches that other states are taking to get to a universal system.
		If you want to learn more about publicly funded universal health care, start with Chris' presentation on Single-Payer UHC given in Feb. 2004 at Ohio State.
	medicine.osu.edu /amsa/2030.cfm (283 words)

	Fraser Institute - How Good is Canadian Health Care? 2004 Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The study is strictly comparative and examines a wide number of factors for the member countries of the OECD in arriving at the answers to the questions posed.
		The study's focus, therefore, is not whether we should "abandon the key elements of Canada's compassionate approach to health care delivery," but how we organize to achieve it.
		To answer this crucial question, which is also the focus of the current debate about health care reform in Canada, we examine the policies followed in other industrialized, universal-access countries; policies that, at lower cost, produce superior access to, and outcomes from, health care than Canada's policies do.
	www.fraserinstitute.ca /shared/readmore.asp?sNav=pb&id=658 (350 words)

	NHS, plc
		An analysis of the transition from universal, publicly funded health care to New Labour’s application of market principles: a national institution reaching crisis point and a key lesson for those concerned with health care everywhere.
		Universal, comprehensive health care, equally available to all and disconnected from income and the ability to pay, was the goal of the founders of the National Health Service.
		A hospital consultant for many years, she now publishes widely on health policy issues and is a frequent contributor to radio and television discussions.
	www.versobooks.com /books/nopqrs/nopq-titles/pollock_a_nhs_plc.shtml (449 words)

	HCFA-WA Bylaws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Encourage community organizations and individuals to participate in the public debate regarding methods to achieve a health care system in Washington and other states in establishing universal health care through publicly funded programs.
		Deposits: All funds of the Corporation not otherwise utilized for routine operation of the Corporation shall be deposited in a timely manner to the credit of the Corporation in such banks, trust companies or other depositories the Board my select.
		In the event of the dissolution of Health Care for All-Washington Corporation, all assets shall be given to a not-for-profit organization with a similar mission.
	www.healthcareforallwa.org /Bylaws/tabid/62/Default.aspx (1543 words)

	Health Care Reform Committee
		The mission of the Health Care Reform Committee is twofold.
		The first part of the mission is to educate members of the union about the health care crisis in the United States and the necessity of achieving universal health care.
		The second part of the mission is to advocate for a publicly funded universal health care system in the United States and to mobilize members to support a health care system that will preserve our benefits and ensure health care for every resident.
	www.psc-cuny.org /healthcarereform.htm (428 words)

	Publicly Funded Health Care
		All of the candidates would do well to examine the Canadian system that is so often touted by proponents of universal health care as a model that ought to be embraced by this country.
		Canadian consumers of health care are not confronted with deductibles to pay nor must they negotiate with managed plans.
		Governments—both federal and state—clearly have a continuing role to play in the delivery of health care, particularly for the millions of citizens who are simply unable to afford health-care insurance.
	ellsworthamerican.com /archive/edit1999/12-99/ea_edit2_12-30-99.html (583 words)

	Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada - Message from the Commissioner - Listening to People
		And how our health care system can be so great and so vulnerable at the same time.
		We've heard Canadians say that they value a universal, publicly funded health care system and they never want people to be turned away for economic reasons.
		And as I've explained in the Commission's Interim Report, we are also asking Canadians to look at four different health care perspectives or scenarios and to tell us which one, or which combination, sounds workable to them.
	www.hc-sc.gc.ca /english/care/romanow/hcc0179.html (849 words)

	The Harbinger. To Arms for Universal Health Care.
		The gang with their hands in the health-care till, determined to suck their sugar-tit to the last drop, developed a two-pronged strategy to avert the "evil day" when a Canadian-type system of universal health care would take the teat from them.
		And if you corrected their presentation of the problem, the stock answer of those who paid for their lies was "Socialized medicine!", harrumphed very loudly and dripping with disdain for the poor wretch who would set the record straight.
		And have you noticed how seldom it is these days that anyone outside the health care reform movement dares mention Canada’s single payer as a rational system to the god-awful mess our profit-driven system has produced -- 45 million people without a health-care policy.
	www.theharbinger.org /xix/001128/walker.html (824 words)

	Candidates' Questionnaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Scott: When it comes to health care, the United States has the highest expenditure per capita of any country in the world, yet by most measures has the poorest health level of any industrialized nation in the world.
		Such financial incentives will reduce demands for unnecessary care and prevent overuse of the health care system by giving greater financial control and responsibility to individual subscribers.
		The current approach to government, which is driven almost completely by the moneybags of special interests, means that Federal employees are saddled with the impossible task of trying to eliminate problems with programs that are untested, unproven, or have a history of failure.
	www.deborahvollmer.com /walker.htm (1801 words)

	Parallel Private Health Insurance in Australia: A Cautionary Tale and Lessons for Canada
		Opponents of parallel private finance argue that it will create "two-tiered" medicine, increase costs, compromise equity and reduce quality and access to publicly financed health care as those with the financial means (and often the strongest voice) exit to private insurance.
		Our overall conclusion is that the Australian experience provides a cautionary tale regarding the risks, costs and benefits of a parallel private system of health care finance.
		"Health insurance and the welfare of health care consumers," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol.
	ideas.repec.org /p/iza/izadps/dp515.html (751 words)

	Candidate Questionnaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Brian: I cannot in good conscience support publicly funded health care but would be willing to consider incentives to expand coverage to all wishing coverage by the private sector.
		Furthermore, Federal regulations already provide health coverage for most serious health conditions by requiring all hospitals that receive any public funding to treat any person regardless of their ability to pay.
		Still, extreme care must be taken whenever we consider implementing the death penalty.
	www.deborahvollmer.com /saunders.htm (1214 words)

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