Hospital Utilization Under the Canadian National Hospital Insurance Program

Reed, Louis S.

doi:10.2105/ajph.55.3.435

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“…While pre-HIDS provincial hospital coverage expansions may have increased hospital utilization, national-level data suggest that implementation of HIDS caused little or no increase in hospital utilization. [37][38][39][40][41] We report a 2% increase in discharges and a 4% increase in days after HIDS, similar to the previous growth trend, suggesting that the national expansion did not accelerate the growth in hospital utilization. We did not locate studies directly analyzing the distributive impact of HIDS.…”

Section: Utilization Trendssupporting

confidence: 73%

The Effect of Large-scale Health Coverage Expansions in Wealthy Nations on Society-Wide Healthcare Utilization

2019

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Most analysts project that a reform like Medicare-for-All that lowers financial barriers to care would cause a surge in the utilization of services, raising costs despite stable or even reduced prices. However, the finite supply of physicians and hospital beds could constrain such utilization increases. We reviewed the effects of 13 universal coverage expansions in capitalist nations on physician and hospital utilization, beginning with New Zealand's 1938 Social Security Act up through the 2010 Affordable Care Act in the USA. Almost all coverage expansions had either a small (i.e., < 10%) or no effect on society-wide utilization. However, coverage expansions often redistributed care-increasing use among newly covered groups while producing small, offsetting reductions among those already covered. We conclude that in wealthy nations, large-scale coverage expansions need not cause overall utilization to surge if provider supply is controlled. However, such reforms could redirect care towards patients who most need it.

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Section: Utilization Trendssupporting

confidence: 73%