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Private delivery of healthcare can work in a publicly funded system but comes with risks

By Stephen Duckett Comments Off on Private delivery of healthcare can work in a publicly funded system but comes with risks , , , , , , , ,

A decision by the Alberta Health Services last month seemed innocuous enough — to swap the tender for laboratory services from a United States-based transnational corporation to an Australian one — but it provoked a furore of discontent.

Backgrounder: Healthcare with user fees

By Alex Peden Comments Off on Backgrounder: Healthcare with user fees , , , , , , , , ,

The most basic way of categorizing healthcare financing is to separate public and private healthcare costs. Public financing includes expenditures from any level of government (financed through taxation) as well as social insurance funds (these are much more widespread in European health care systems, although Workers’ Compensation Boards would be included here).