Awarded the Bronze Apple by the National Educational Medical Network Film Festival, 1999. A Model for Reform With Senator Paul Wellstone. For the general public, grass roots organizations, and others interested in Single Payer health care. Canadian physicians, economists and consumers tell Americans about their National Health Program and discuss its universal coverage, financing, choice of doctor and hospital, advanced technology, problems and satisfaction with the system. The Single Payer System in Action Introduced by Kevin Grumbach, M.D., of Physicians for a National Health Program, Chicago, Illinois.
Canadian physicians tell about the practice of medicine in Canada.
Designed for professional audiences. Canadian primary care physicians and specialists tell how Canada's National Health Insurance Program works. Topics include choice of physician, government interference, physician income, cost of care, malpractice insurance, quality of care and problems. Filmed in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada. Progress A lecture by Rashi Fein, Ph.D. , Harvard School of Medicine.