Importance of doctors in kannada
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When Premier Tommy Douglas introduced public insurance for physicians' services in Saskatchewan in 1962, doctors went on strike. The Saskatchewan experience showed however that doctors could indeed thrive within a single-payer system. Within just a few years, public health insurance had become a federal program.
However, as doctors' fees fell relative to inflation in the late 1970s and early 1980s, many doctors adopted a practice known as 'extra billing'. These doctors would not only claim fees from the public insurance program but would also charge the patient an extra fee.
The Canada Health Act put an end to this practice, but only after another failed doctors' strike, this time in Ontario, in 1986.
Since then, physician opposition to single payer health care has simmered. While some physicians and physician organizations feel that it is their right to charge patients whatever the market will bear, many physicians are strong supporters of Medicare.