In this issue... Access to health care and the sustainability of the system will remain problem-atic until governments and the public are willing to confront changes needed to bring the mismatch between the growth of costs and fiscal resources back into balance. The Study in Brief Public concern about access and government concern about the unsustainable growth of spending have prompted a number of high-profile commissions on health reform. This Commentary compares the recommendations of the Fyke, Mazankowski, Kirby, and Romanow reports, and evaluates the responses of governments in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Ottawa. Although all four reports make similar recommendations to improve delivery of core services, sharp differences emerge regardi...
Canada’s government-funded health care system is under fiscal attack. De-spite the mandate of the Ca...
Separating issues of funding (i.e., who pays for healthcare) and delivery (i.e., who owns and admini...
In this paper, we review recent developments in the debate over the role of the private sector in he...
Health care policy in Canada is based on providing public funding for medically necessary physician ...
Health care reform has become the leading policy issue in Canada. A special report on health care re...
Health care policy in Canada is based on providing public funding for medically necessary physician ...
Globally, the mix of private- and public-sector involvement in health care delivery is a focus of po...
Health care today in Canada is the most debated and studied public policy issue. There is consensus ...
Despite spending more on health care than the majority of developed countries with universal-access ...
While Canada has socialized most of the costs of treating illness, Canada has maintained a reliance ...
This paper examines the current health care reform issues in Canada. The provincial health insurance...
A key component of provincial health reform plans in the 1990s (and directly linked to the process o...
Federal health care funding has long been a source of policy debate in this country, a situation exa...
The discourse surrounding the unsustainability of financing universal health care in Canada has led ...
From 1975 to 2007, Alberta’s real per capita government health expenditures grew from $1,679 to $3,6...
Canada’s government-funded health care system is under fiscal attack. De-spite the mandate of the Ca...
Separating issues of funding (i.e., who pays for healthcare) and delivery (i.e., who owns and admini...
In this paper, we review recent developments in the debate over the role of the private sector in he...
Health care policy in Canada is based on providing public funding for medically necessary physician ...
Health care reform has become the leading policy issue in Canada. A special report on health care re...
Health care policy in Canada is based on providing public funding for medically necessary physician ...
Globally, the mix of private- and public-sector involvement in health care delivery is a focus of po...
Health care today in Canada is the most debated and studied public policy issue. There is consensus ...
Despite spending more on health care than the majority of developed countries with universal-access ...
While Canada has socialized most of the costs of treating illness, Canada has maintained a reliance ...
This paper examines the current health care reform issues in Canada. The provincial health insurance...
A key component of provincial health reform plans in the 1990s (and directly linked to the process o...
Federal health care funding has long been a source of policy debate in this country, a situation exa...
The discourse surrounding the unsustainability of financing universal health care in Canada has led ...
From 1975 to 2007, Alberta’s real per capita government health expenditures grew from $1,679 to $3,6...
Canada’s government-funded health care system is under fiscal attack. De-spite the mandate of the Ca...
Separating issues of funding (i.e., who pays for healthcare) and delivery (i.e., who owns and admini...
In this paper, we review recent developments in the debate over the role of the private sector in he...