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  1. The Romanow Commission: Tragedy of a One Man Band

      That report’s introduction reveals the futility of the task: “… a one-person, time-limited Commission cannot address every conceivable issue affecting the future of health care in Canada.” Take one man, add a budget of over $15 million, solicit the ...

  2. Moving Beyond the Status Quo: Alberta's Working Prescription for Health Care Reform

    Many experts have diagnosed medicare in Canada as an ailing system in need of treatment. Commission after commission has agreed that the health care system, under pressures of an expanding and aging population, and growing demands for new technologies and ...

  3. How Private Hospital Competition Can Improve Canadian Health Care

    The Alberta proposal raises three issues. First, do for-profit hospitals perform better than non-profit ones? Second, do private hospitals (either for-profit or non-profit) perform better than government-run (public) ones? Third, does intensified ...

  4. The Availability of Medical Technology in Canada: An International Comparative Study

    An important component of health care in advanced countries is the availability of medical technology and the new procedures made possible by that technology. In recent years there has been growing evidence of a decline in the quality and quantity of ...

  5. Medical Savings Accounts

    Medical savings accounts (MSAs) are health accounts that are established in conjunction with high-deductible health insurance. They can be set up by individuals, employers, or by the government. The most common type is the American employer-funded MSAs. ...

  6. Waiting Your Turn- Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada, 6th edition

    The current Critical Issues Bulletin is the Institute's sixth attempt to document the extent to which queues are being used as a means of adapting to the conflict between limited budgetary allocations and potentially unlimited demand for free health ...

  7. Healthy Incentives

    This book focuses on the health care system in Canada along two sight lines. The first is evidence from other countries about how their health care systems are functioning and what reforms they are pursuing. The second is the requirements for policy ...