Medicare Myths and Realities

http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/Diemer-MedicareMyths.htm
Date Written:  2012-05-01
Year Published:  2012
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14260

Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.

Subject Headings

• Bureaucracy
• Canada Health Act
• Canadian Health Care Myths
• Government Budgets
• Government Debt/Deficits
• Health Care Access
• Health Care Costs
• Health Care Costs/Comparative Systems
• Health Care Funding
• Health Care in Canada
• Health Care in the U.S.
• Health Care Privatization
• Health & Class
• Health Determinants/Social Determinants of Health
• Health Insurance
• Health Sources
• Insurance/Health Services
• Medical Insurance
• Medicare
• Preventive Health Care
• Preventive Medicine
• Private Clinics
• Privatization
• Public Sector
• Public Sector/Privatization
• Single-Payer System
• Socialized Medicine
• Universality
• User Fees