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Private health care by stealth:
Friday, August 10th, 2012
30 July 2012
… there has never been any good evidence to suggest that user fees would do anything more than shift costs away from healthier and wealthier taxpayers to sicker and poorer users. In fact, there is no evidence at all that user fees reduce the unnecessary uses of health services. It is just as likely that “legitimate” users may delay seeking appropriate care until their conditions become more acute, more complicated and more expensive—on the public dime.
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