In the 11 years since the Romanow Commission warned that the income of physicians was threatening to become a … more than he or she was just a decade ago. All of this has occurred while physicians have actually provided slightly fewer … provinces and physicians for public support, each with its own claim to being the guardian of public health care. In the last …

This paper examines the impacts of private hospital entry on publicly funded elective care in England. From 2006 … differentially exposed to private hospital entry, instrumenting hospital entry with the location of private hospitals in the pre …-reform period. We find private hospital entry led to a 12% increase in the overall number of annual publicly funded admissions, and …

Physician compensation accounts for about one-fifth of all Canadian healthcare spending. But physicians’ decisions …, particularly those made by primary care doctors, are the conduit for the majority of the system’s costs. The incentives physicians … could be extended so that primary care physicians would keep track of the costs of their referrals and prescribed treatments …

hospital-based physicians be paid directly from hospital budgets as opposed to the current practice of paying them separately … provincial health ministries. Surgical specialists make up about 20 percent of all full-time equivalent physicians, and fee …-for-service payments to them accounted for close to $4 billion nationwide in 2011/12. Because physicians’ decisions are the major drivers …

the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition …