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iiclr-17543	Roth, Michael	Universal Health Care: Concerns For American Physicians, Using The Canadian Experience as a Model	1994	26	.pdf	application/pdf	9378	722	65	An even cheaper option would be a health maintenance organization (HMO) that provides health care at a fixed price, with some waiting and rationing of specialists' services.3 4 Since consumers will have a choice, health care economists believe that consumers will economize by shifting away from basic fee-for-service care toward HMOs and PPOs and drive down health care costs. 3 Polls suggest that a majority of Americans are insecure about their health care coverage and are discouraged about the soaring cost of health care, which rose from $250 billion in 1980 to more than $900 billion in 1993.4 Health care costs have been expanding at a rate of ten percent a year, faster than the nation's overall economic growth.	cache/iiclr-17543.pdf	txt/iiclr-17543.txt