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National Health Insurance in Ontario: The Effects of a Policy of Cost
Control, by William S. Comanor, examines the implications for the
United States of Ontario's experience with national health insurance.
Health care expenditures in Ontario, Canada's most populous prov-
ince, have increased sharply since the adoption of national health
insurance in 1969. To reduce costs, the Ontario government adopted
a policy limiting the supply of physicians and of hospital beds. Ex-
amining the presumption underlying this policy, the author finds
that the number of physician specialists has a much larger impact on
the volume of physician and hospital services utilized than has the
number of general practitioners.
    The author contends that Ontario's adoption of a national in-
surance plan that removed all financial constraints on demand led
inexorably to government control of both the extent and character of
medical care-a model that should not be followed in the United
States.
    William S. Comanor is professor of economics at the University
of California at Santa Barbara. On leave from this position, he cur-
rently serves as the director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal
Trade Commission.



















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ISBN-13: 978-0-8447-3379-1
ISBN 10: 0-8447-3379-2



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