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1. Understanding Universal Health Care Reform Options: Activity-Based Funding

   Hospital care in Canada’s provinces today is predominantly funded on a global budget or block-grant basis, under which hospitals receive an allocation of funds each fiscal year to look after patients. An alternative approach—one that has been adopted by ...

2. Money Following Patients: A Better Way to Pay for Universally Accessible Hospital Care

   Main Conclusions Over the last 30 years, nearly all of the world’s developed nations with universally accessible health-care systems have moved to at least partially having money follow patients for hospital care, and away from the global-budget approach ...

3. Is the Canada Health Act a Barrier to Reform?

   Despite spending more on health care than the majority of developed countries with universal-access health-care systems, Canada performs poorly in international comparisons of the performance of health systems. Canada’s health policies also differ from ...

4. For-Profit Hospitals and Insurers in Universal Health Care Countries

   The poor access to medical services and middling outcomes and safety in Canada’s health-care system despite high spending suggest a need for reform of health-care policies. Yet, while Canadians seem open to the possibility of fundamental reform, faulty ...

5. Drug Coverage for low-income families: The Canadian Reality and Lessons from Switzerland and the Netherlands

   Modern medicines are essential for improving health outcomes, alleviating pain and suffering, increasing longevity, and reducing expenditures on other medical services. While there is merit to pursuing a policy that expands access to those in need, it ...

6. Health Care Lessons from Japan

   This paper focuses on the Japanese health care system which has been identified as a system that provides some of the best outcomes on an aggregate basis when compared with other developed nations that maintain universal approaches to health care ...