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Abstract
Other Countries SAGE Publications, Inc.1956DOI: 10.1177/107755875601300114 CANADA Proposed Prepayment Plan for Regina "Proposed Prepayment Plan for Regina," Canadian Doctor 21:48 November, 1955 "The Province of Saskatchewan has been responsible for some quite revolutionary developments in the socio-economic medical field, which have apparently turned out so successfully that so far fr~m annulling any of them a program of steady expansion is in evidence. . "It is now proposed to bring the Regina rural health region, incorporating the capital city, under a plan for the prepayment of medical services. During November residents will vote on a proposed plan to provide for a wide range of medical services by doctor. to be paid for out of taxation. General practitioners would be paid out of a pooled fund in accordance with their respective volumes of service. The program is not entirely novel but follows the pattern of a plan which has been in successful operation in Swift Current for ten years. "The cost of the program is estimated at $1,172,000 per year, for regional residents, which works out at $15.24 per beneficiary. lt is pointed out that residents of Regina rural health region are already paying approximately $600,000 per year for a