YORK UNIVERSITY: Push toward American-style health care rooted in myth and distortions.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-2 June 1999-YORK UNIVERSITY: Push toward American-style health care rooted in myth and distortions, according to York U. co-editors of new book Health Reform -- Public Success, Private Failure (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:310599 TORONTO -- With the Ontario election entering the home stretch, recent polls have shown health care to be the most important issue for Ontario voters.

But with wide-spread media reports of Canadians facing waiting lists for specialty care and medical treatment, a two-tier health care system is being touted by the Fraser Institute and others as a way of adding more money to an over burdened public system. Unless Ottawa and the provinces rededicate efforts to restore confidence in a publicly regulated payment...