Are you Willing to Wait? Tradeoffs and Compromises Required to Achieve Universal Health Insurance

Peter Cram^{1

2

3}, Nolan Cram⁴, Christian Veillette^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. peter.cram@uhn.ca.
² Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Sinai Health System and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. peter.cram@uhn.ca.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, Eaton 14th Floor, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2C4, Canada. peter.cram@uhn.ca.
⁴ Bachelor's Degree Program, Lazaridis School of Business, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Peter Cram et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Mar.

. 2020 Mar;35(3):916-917.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-05630-2. Epub 2020 Jan 9.

Peter Cram^{1

2

3}, Nolan Cram⁴, Christian Veillette^{5

6}

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. peter.cram@uhn.ca.
² Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Sinai Health System and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. peter.cram@uhn.ca.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, Eaton 14th Floor, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2C4, Canada. peter.cram@uhn.ca.
⁴ Bachelor's Degree Program, Lazaridis School of Business, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

No abstract available

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