Who are the zombie masters, and what do they want?

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Who are the zombie masters, and what do they want? Evans, Robert G., 1942-; Barer, M. L.; Stoddart, Gregory Lloyd, 1948-; Bhatia, Vandna

Abstract

This is one in a series of articles by the authors about the ongoing debate over user charges in the Canadian health care system. In this paper we examine the "zombie-masters", those people and organizations who have consistently revived and promoted the idea that user charges will help meet a number of important social policy objectives, despite the fact that such charges have been repeatedly rejected by policy-makers and the general public (and the claims of their supporters refuted by analyses of the effects of such charges). We attempt to analyze their behaviour and motivations; in so doing, we identify a number of distinct groups and find that they seem motivated largely by the expectation that they, or the people they represent, will benefit in some way from the (re-) introduction of user charges.

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Title	Who are the zombie masters, and what do they want?
Alternate Title	HPRU 93:13D
Creator	Evans, Robert G., 1942-; Barer, M. L.; Stoddart, Gregory Lloyd, 1948-; Bhatia, Vandna
Contributor	University of British Columbia. Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
Publisher	Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR)
Date Issued	1993-09
Description	This is one in a series of articles by the authors about the ongoing debate over user charges in the Canadian health care system. In this paper we examine the "zombie-masters", those people and organizations who have consistently revived and promoted the idea that user charges will help meet a number of important social policy objectives, despite the fact that such charges have been repeatedly rejected by policy-makers and the general public (and the claims of their supporters refuted by analyses of the effects of such charges). We attempt to analyze their behaviour and motivations; in so doing, we identify a number of distinct groups and find that they seem motivated largely by the expectation that they, or the people they represent, will benefit in some way from the (re-) introduction of user charges.
Subject	User charges -- Canada; Medical care -- Canada -- Finance; Fee-for-Service Plans -- Canada; Fees and Charges -- Canada; Medical economics -- Canada
Geographic Location	Canada
Genre	Article
Type	Text
Language	eng
Date Available	2014-08-29
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada
DOI	10.14288/1.0048354
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50270
Affiliation	Arts, Faculty of; Vancouver School of Economics; Health Care and Epidemiology, Department of; Non UBC; Medicine, Faculty of; Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty; Researcher
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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