Growth in private payments for health care by Canadian households

Michael R. Law, Jamie R. Daw, Lucy Cheng and Steven G. Morgan

Health Policy, 2013, vol. 110, issue 2, 141-146

Abstract: Despite first-dollar public coverage for hospital and physician services, Canadians spend more privately on health care than citizens of most other developed countries. We quantified recent growth in private payments by Canadian households for health care.

Keywords: Fees and charges; Health expenditures; Fees; Dental; Fees; Medical; Fees; Pharmaceutical (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.01.014

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