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Previous Volume 342:2007-2012 June 29, 2000 Number 26

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The provincial health insurance plans of Canada, still prized by a population that relies on universal coverage of hospital care and physicians' services, nevertheless suffered a dramatic loss of public confidence in the 1990s as a result of sharp cutbacks in the federal budget. These cutbacks have led to restricted access to specialists, longer waiting times for nonemergency surgery, and the closing or merger of many hospitals, resulting in a loss of beds. The reductions, a central feature of the federal government's successful effort in recent years to eliminate the large annual budget deficit, are now being partially reversed, but . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Evolution of the Provincial Plans

Erosion of Public and Professional Support

A Shortfall of Capacity

The Disappointing Federal Response

Striking New Balances

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