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The long-term trends suggest a shift in work-life balance and a need for recruiting additional physicians to compensate for declining work hours, the authors wrote. ....
A new study suggests that recently trained family physicians practice similarly to their predecessors and are not to blame for medical access challenges in Canada. ....
Single-Payer Reform and Rural Health in the United States: Lessons from Our Northern Neighbor Abstract Single-payer health reform has secured its place in the mainstream American health policy debate, yet its implications for particular subpopulations or sectors of care remain understudied. Amidst many unanswered questions from policymakers and political pundits, rural health has emerged as one such area. This article explores rural Canada’s five-decade-long experience with a national publicly funded health insurance program as a valuable opportunity for cross-national learning. During March 2020, I conducted 13 semi-structured, elite stakeholder interviews with government officials, academic researchers, rural hospital executives, public health association leaders, rural health administrators, and representatives from provincial medical, hospital, and physician associations in Ontario. I found that a single-payer model confers notable advantages over a market-based mode ....