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...usually at a cost to the patient of longer waiting times and rationing of specialists' services. "Most people would be forced into HMOs because that's all they would be able to afford," says Representative Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington State who has proposed a "single-payer" health-care system similar to the one in Canada. White House officials privately explain that pushing more Americans into HMOs and PPOs is crucial to cost control, but that is a point the President prefers not to discuss...
...turn might respond by drawing lines not unlike Oregon's. Companies "will make rationing decisions in the privacy of their own boardrooms. I'd anticipate seeing significant cutbacks in care," predicts Steffie Woolhandler, a co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, which advocates the single-payer form of health care like Canada's tax-based government plan...
...panel of professors focused on different aspects of health care reform at the Kennedy School of Government last night, from the viability of a single-payer system to the ability of insurance companies to subvert new legislation...
Rashi Fein, professor of economics of medicine at Harvard Medical School, said he would favor a single payer plan over Clinton's proposed health care plan...
...Rashi Fein, professor of economics ofmedicine at the Medical School, while callingClinton's speech an excellent "call to arms," saysa single payer system, similar to Canada's, wouldhave been a better choice. Universal insurancewould not be paid by employers, but by abroad-based tax based on ability to pay, in aversion of Canada's much-touted health caresystem...