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The United States health care system is not nearly as free market and consumer driven as it should be. And while government continues to slowly takeover our health care system, and Obamacare would fast-forward that development, the U.S. system is still more free than the Canadian “single-payer” system. And how is government run health care working for Canada? This past summer the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority considered cutting more than 6,000 surgeries to make up for a $200 million budget shortfall. British Columbia Medical Association president Dr. Brian Brodie called the proposed surgical cuts “a nightmare.” Access problems are not new to Canadian’s single payer system. Since 2003, Timely Medical Alternatives Inc. has helped Canadians “leave the queue” and get timely health care in the United States. Now The Globe and Mail reports: (more…)
Tags: Canada, consumer-driven, free market, single-payer system
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Minnesota Lets Patients Shop Around on Health Care
This week, Minnesota became the first state in the nation to roll out a Web tool that allows residents to be health care shoppers when it comes to their medical care. According to a Star Tribune article, the Web site, mnhealthscores.org, was developed by MN Community Measurement, “a collaborative of state health care providers that collected the data from insurance companies.”
The site provides the average cost for 103 common medical procedures from 110 providers in the state, about 85 percent of primary care in Minnesota, the article said. More providers and procedures are expected to be added.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who announced the program this week, said in the article,”The right way to go is to a consumer-driven model” like Minnesota’s, ”not a government-centric model, particularly not a federal government-centric model.”
Tags: consumer-driven, health care costs, medical procedure, Pawlenty
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