Word: pineo
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...Citizens are issued a health card by the government, and they present it when they receive care. Doctors process claims much as retailers handle credit-card transactions. The government then pays the doctor with money that comes largely from taxes. "Once somebody's in the system," says Dr. Graham Pineo, an A.C.P. officer from Canada, "the payments flow regularly." Only a few services are excluded. Among them: private or semiprivate hospital rooms, drugs prescribed outside the hospital, eyeglasses and wheelchairs, and pre-employment and insurance examinations...
Provincial governments have ultimate control over hospital budgets and doctors' fees, but in return do not force physicians to justify every procedure and test, as U.S. doctors must do. And while there are occasional reports of long lines and insufficient bed space, Pineo says, "we feel everybody gets adequate service...