A Short Course in Brain Surgery

What's being neglected here is the bottom line and that is, Canadians are far better cared for then Americans according to WHO statistics. I've got a feeling this guys on some HC insurance company teat!

According to WHO Stats? That ranking is highly distorted. Its a joke it. It takes things such as income inequality and well countries that have high income inequality have bad health care and then never proved the correlation between the two. h t t p : // bit . ly/ WyBIx

President Obama and many of his advisers and liberal democrats are on record saying their real goal is a single payer system.

But don't let the REAL FACTS get in your way.

Greetings; you must be speaking of the "cap" on physician billings. It was a new term for what we call "wage and price controls" here in the states. The US tried the same thing in the '20s and we got the Great Depression as a reward.
You should note the caps have been constantly relaxed in Canada, and some provinces have now begun to lift them. All they did was encourage physicians to leave Canada or work less. Such controls always result in shortages. History proves it over and again.

Professor: Is that your final answer?

There is a specific mechanism with it's principle aptly named. It's a very specific economic process... please do try again. I'd hate to give you an epic fail for getting a question wrong in your own field. In the name of fair play, I'm giving you another shot. Do you need a hint?

Nope...it's the idea of wage and price control as used as part of a centrally controlled economy. In my 40 yrs at this crap, I've seen thousands of papers, books, articles etc all claiming to be "different" and usually named after the claimant, trying to beat through the publish or perish rules of academia. Few of them are new...just rehashes...and I cal them what they are. Billing caps were a simple, and failed, wage and price control scheme...dress it up all you will...that's all it was.

Sorry wrong answer. Correct answer is "The Third-Party Buyer Effect" When health care became free to some Canadians under the new socialized medicine, doctors offices were swamped w/ more patients who wanted procedures for non-life threatening issues. Docs submitted inflated bills.The govt had to limit the practice by placing caps on what docs could charge for certain procedures. It's like when someone is asked if they want a sandwich, they say no but when they find out it's free, they ask for 2

Jeeez...if you're going to test me, match the question to the answer. 3rd pty byer effect is the RESULT of price controls. When you subsidize a product demand goes up...duh!!!
Back in the '70s Canada capped annual billings for physician practices in an attempt to get them to reduce services and costs.
Your quote above sounds like it came from a reporter...and a very confused one at that. It makes little or no sense...as reporters generally don't when they try to get technical.

11% doesn't have to be a large number. If one person loses his life because they cannot get the health care they need when they need it then thats one person too many and the system/powers that be are guilty of murder.You people need to wake up and not buy into the Governments propaganda machine.

And why not be Anti Obama? The man is an admitted socialist. Thats one step away from Comunism. W fought the cold war to keep people like him out, now he and his kind has twisted the minds of so many people they can't see this socialist health care bill as the real threat to our way of life that it is. This country was made to be a Republic. Obama will choke any last vestage of the Republic from us. He is a traitior to this country and must be stoped. Impeach Obama Now! Stop Socialist Bill Now!