Fact and Fiction: The Medicare "Crisis" Seen From the United States
Bibliographic record
Abstract
There are at present two conflicting images of medicare available to the visitor from the United States. One is the conventional media portrait of crisis--from both U.S. and Canadian sources--an image of a program in deep trouble, overcome by problems of access, cost and quality. The other image is far more favourable: medicare as a structurally sound program of universal health insurance that largely satisfies those who use it, but, like all programs, requires managerial adjustment and attention to the fearfulness of medicare's future that has marked the last decade. This is the conclusion of the recent report of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Both portraits cannot be accurate, just as being green and white all over is logically impossible. What is the American interpreter to make of this dispute?
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.038 | 0.039 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".