{"id":11,"date":"2007-04-09T22:46:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T03:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/zhang\/2007\/04\/09\/11\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T20:48:58","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T01:48:58","slug":"11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/2007\/04\/09\/11\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From, bcn dot boulder dot co dot us slash\u00a0 health slash healthwatch slash canada dot html<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In contrast, the single payer system that Canada has used for the last 25 years has drastically simplified their administration costs. For instance, it takes more people to administer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts that it does to administer the entire health care system of Canada. Before Canada implemented their national health program, their health costs were the same portion of their economy as in the U.S. After they implemented their program, their costs stabilized at 9% while U.S. costs have increased to 14%. They spend one tenth of what U.S. health care providers spend on overhead.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From, bcn dot boulder dot co dot us slash\u00a0 health slash healthwatch slash canada dot html In contrast, the single payer system that Canada has used for the last 25 years has drastically simplified their administration costs. For instance, it takes more people to administer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts that it does to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1405,1389,1388],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fairness","category-future","category-leader"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}