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Is workers’ compensation spending on healthcare significant? Would a "single-payer" system make a difference?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Regardless of the workers’ compensation insurance arrangement (private insurer, exclusive public state or provincial workers’ compensation board) the healthcare expenditures by workers’ compensation systems are relatively small compared to the total national spending on healthcare. In my view, this would be a mistake.

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Workers’ Compensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 1

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

To address these and other actual or anticipated market failures , governments intervene in a variety of ways [see post, “What is the connection between market failures and workers’ compensation? ” , Workers’ Comp Perspectives, August 9, 2016]. There are no jurisdictions with competitive state funds.