In Canada single-payer started in Saskatchewan (a province) in 1946 with hospitalization. Complete medical care was achievend in 1962. Even now the Canada Health Act (1984) simply mandates certain features that every provincial single payer system must have.
Cheers, ken hanly
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--- On Wed, 10/21/09, Joshua Bregman <melodiousthunk at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Joshua Bregman <melodiousthunk at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] state by state single payer
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 2:25 AM
> Does anyone have any thoughts or
> resources on the viability of the Kucinich Amendment,
> allowing individual states to set up single-payer systems,
> as a strategy for achieving a national system?
>
> And would single-payer work at the state level? Would
> individual states have enough bargaining power to keep costs
> down?
>
>
> thanks,
> josh
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