title: Expenditure on physicians' services in Canada: was Medicare a structural change?
abstract: This paper uses cointegration analysis to investigate the question of whether the introduction of national health insurance for physicians' services (Medicare) in the late 1960s caused a structural change in the relation driving national expenditure on physicians' services in Canada. The results support the existence of a single cointegration equation applying to both the Medicare and pre-Medicare periods. Structural change tests do not support the presence of a fundamental structural change associated with the introduction of Medicare.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, University of Guelph, Canada.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ferguson
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D002170:Canada; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007357:Insurance, Physician Services / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018803:Models, Economic; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018855:Single-Payer System / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States