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Single-Payer System/legislation & jurisprudence , Universal Health Insurance/legislation & jurisprudence , California , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Insurance Coverage/legislation & jurisprudence , Mandatory Programs/legislation & jurisprudence , Medicaid/legislation & jurisprudence , Single-Payer System/history , State Government , United StatesSubject(s)
Health Policy , Human Rights , Medicare , Single-Payer System , Universal Health Insurance , Cost Savings , History, 20th Century , Income , Medicare/economics , Medicare/history , Medicare/legislation & jurisprudence , Moral Obligations , Public Opinion , Single-Payer System/economics , Single-Payer System/history , Taxes , United States , Universal Health Insurance/legislation & jurisprudenceSubject(s)
Health Policy/legislation & jurisprudence , Insurance, Health/legislation & jurisprudence , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/legislation & jurisprudence , Politics , Health Care Reform/history , Health Care Reform/legislation & jurisprudence , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/economics , Single-Payer System/history , United States , Universal Health Insurance/historySubject(s)
National Health Insurance, United States , Single-Payer System , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Insurance Coverage , Medically Uninsured , Medicare/history , National Health Insurance, United States/history , National Health Insurance, United States/legislation & jurisprudence , Single-Payer System/history , Single-Payer System/legislation & jurisprudence , United StatesABSTRACT
This study traces the average net income of Canadian physicians over 150 years to determine the impact of medicare. It also compares medical income in Canada to that in the United States. Sources include academic studies, government reports, Census data, taxation statistics, and surveys. The results show that Canadian doctors enjoyed a windfall in earnings during the early years of medicare and that, after a period of adjustment, medicare enhanced physician income. Except during the windfall boom, Canadian physicians have earned less than their American counterparts. Until at least 2005, however, the medical profession was the top-earning trade in Canada relative to all other professions.
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Income/trends , National Health Programs/economics , Physicians/economics , Single-Payer System/economics , Canada , Gross Domestic Product/history , Gross Domestic Product/statistics & numerical data , Gross Domestic Product/trends , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Humans , Income/statistics & numerical data , National Health Programs/history , National Health Programs/trends , Single-Payer System/history , Single-Payer System/trends , United StatesABSTRACT
It is widely believed that the turning point for U.S. health insurance came in 1949 when Congress failed to adopt President Harry Truman's proposal for a national system. The possibility that a system of state-level health plans might have emerged before Truman's plan has received little attention. Yet several attempts to enact such a plan were made in California by Governor Earl Warren in the mid-1940s. Had Warren succeeded, the California example might have been emulated by other states and the United States might have evolved a system similar to Canada's provincial programs.
