Michael Rachlis' "Prescription for Excellence"

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This paper points out Michael Rachlis' economic position in his book "Prescription for Excellence: How Innovation Is Saving Canada's Health Care System". The author discusses that Rachlis believes that He Canada's health care system can be through innovation and organization. The paper is opposed to privatization of the health care system.

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"Michael Rachlis in "Prescription for Excellence: How Innovation Is Saving Canada's Health Care System" argues that publicly funded health insurance systems need not be privatized to realize economies of scale or needed cost savings; instead Rachlis calls for the spread of innovation and the elimination of dependence upon emergency room care among other primary strategies in the effort to reform the public health system while improving access or resource deployment. Rachlis' perspective is that Canadians are opposed to so-called market medicine."

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