Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Scheme

Medical Benefits under Employees' State Insurance Scheme

A Budget for Medical Care Insurance *

The need for insurance against medical costs was questioned or denied until recently by leading professional associations. Now, this need is accepted; and remaining differences of opinion center mainly on the alternatives of compulsory and voluntary insurance, and on scope, structure, and control of insurance plans. Discussions of national medical-care insurance have been largely concerned with...

Acute care revolution on way in Saskatchewan?

Saskatchewan could change the way some of the province’s physicians work and how they are paid. The report’s author, Ken Fyke, recommends a sweeping reorganization for a health care system that is threatened by growing demands. But he says bigger budgets are not the solution. “I recommend that the government buy change, not more status quo,” says Fyke, the province’s former deputy minister of h...

Private Medical Care Expenditures and Voluntary Health Insurance, 1948–60

PRIVATE expenditures for medical care in the United St,ates amounted in 1060 to $10.6 billion. This total was nearly $1.6 billion more than that spent in 1059. The data presented here for 1060 represent a continuation of a series of annual estimates made by the Division of Program Research and published each year, generally in the December issue of the BULLETIN. Slight adjustments have been mad...

Private Medical Care Expenditures and Voluntary Health Insurance, 1948–61

THE NATION’S private consumer expenditures for medical care amounted in 1961 to $21.1 billion$1.3 billion or approximately 7 percent more than the amount spent in 1960. Direct out-of-pocket payments by consumers amounted to $14.4 billion or 68 percent of the total. The balance of $6.7 billion, representing payments for health insurance, was $832 million or 14 percent greater than the amount spe...