Expenditure on physicians' services in Canada: Was Medicare a structural change?

Brian Ferguson

Health Economics, 1996, vol. 5, issue 5, 409-419

Abstract: This paper uses cointegration analysis to investigate the question of whether the introduction of national health insurance for physicians' services (Medicare) in the late 1960s caused a structural change in the relation driving national expenditure on physicians' services in Canada. The results support the existence of a single cointegration equation applying to both the Medicare and pre‐Medicare periods. Structural change tests do not support the presence of a fundamental structural change associated with the introduction of Medicare.

Date: 1996
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