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Universality HealthSources.ca Topic Index Medicare in Canada: Facts and Myths Health Care Myths Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Refutes the myths and representations spread by medicare’s opponents. Ten Health Care Myths Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 1995 Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations. Testimony of David U. Himmelstein, M.D. before the HELP Subcommittee Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2009 A single-payer reform would make care affordable through vast savings on bureaucracy and profits. As my colleagues and I have shown in research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, administration consumes 31 percent of health spending in the United States, nearly double what Canada spends. In other words, if we cut our bureaucratic costs to Canadian levels, we'd save nearly $400 billion annually - more than enough to cover the uninsured and to eliminate co-payments and deductibles for all Americans.

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