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  1. Canadian Institute of Actuaries
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  2. Doctors' Strike
    Medical Care and Conflict in Saskatchewan

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
  3. The government owns your DNA. What are they doing with it?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Some US states have created biobanks of genetic material left over from patient screening tests, with specimens potentially used for purposes that have not granted informed consent, bringing up disturbing ethical and privacy concerns.
  4. Ingle International/Imagine Financial
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. Medicare in Canada: Facts and Myths
    Health Care Myths

    Resource Type: Article
    Refutes the myths and representations spread by medicare#s opponents.
  6. Medicare Myths and Realities
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.
  7. The National Health Program Book
    A Source Guide for Advocates

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Facts, statistics, and myth-debunking about the Canadian health insurance system and about competing proposals for reform of the U.S. health care system. Part I covers the Economic Context of the Health Care Crisis: Rising Costs, Declining Coverage and Incomes; Part II covers the Impact of the Crisis: Care Denied and Delayed; Part III covers the Social Cost of the American System: Poor Health care Leads to Poor Health. Part IV covers Rationing in the Midst of Plenty. Part V focuses on Exploring the Alternative: Canada's National Health Program. Part VI looks at Why Our System Costs More and Delivers Less: Administrative Waste in U.S. Health Care. Part VII deals with a National Health Program for the U.S.. Part VIII covers Paying for a National Health Program. Part IX looks at President Clinton's Plan: Making Insurance Companies the Feudal Lords of American Medicine. Part X is A Force for Change: Public Opinion on Health Care Reform. Part XI is A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal.
  8. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1889
  9. Ten Health Care Myths
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.


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