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The concern with
establishing safety nets for resolving the social problems in Russia after the August Coup
of 1991 speeded up the diffusion of Western social insurance mechanisms to Russia. Russia
wanted to set up the administrative and legal structures to guarantee free market and
democratic social relations. The Supreme Soviet adopted ideas for decentralized,
self-financing medical care organization, but exercised caution regarding the importation
of foreign health programs. The organizational form of provider-controlled, private
insurance medicine has persisted over government-administered health programs in the
United States, while Canada developed "single-payer" national health insurance
and, in Great Britain, a national health service was maintained. |