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Doctors as Stewards of medicare, or not: CAMSI, MRG, CDM, DRHC and the thin alphabet soup of physician support

Duffin, Jacayln
http://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/health-economics-policy-and-law/article/doctors-as-stewards-of-medicare-or-not-camsi-mrg-cdm-drhc-and-the-thin-alphabet-soup-of-physician-support/3C371789A5E1F26F3EDA4ECA8446B84E

Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
Date Written:  20/02/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

Physicians are deeply involved in Canadian medicare because it is through medicare that they are paid. However, from its origins to the present physicians -- as a profession -- have not been strong supporters of medicare.

Abstract:  Physicians are deeply involved in Canadian medicare because it is through medicare that they are paid. However, from its origins to the present physicians -- as a profession- have not been strong supporters of medicare. Fearing loss of income and individual autonomy, they have frequently opposed it with criticisms, strikes, threatened job action and lawsuits. Some opponents are unaware that medicare was a boon to physician income, and many fail to connect medicare with responsibility for improving the health status of the country. This paper will trace physician involvement, support and opposition to medicare from its inception to the present, with special attention to small physician organizations that have supported medicare. It will close with a proposal for how doctors could display greater stewardship.

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