TITLE

Tough medicine for medicare

AUTHOR(S)

Frey, Rod

PUB. DATE

April 1993

SOURCE

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;4/19/93, Vol. 20 Issue 18, p41

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

States that Medicare has proven distinctly unhealthy for Canadian taxpayers and with rising health care costs needs to be reformed. The case of Betty Mariot who suffers from pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS); Free-spending approach to health care; The Oregon health care reforms; Why Canada may soon follow Oregon's lead; Details. INSET: The carrot-and-stick approach to hospital funding, by Gina Teel..

ACCESSION #

9305120722

Tags: MEDICAL care -- Finance

 

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