Contrary to these arguments, which are driven by a naive belief in the superiority of markets and the profit motive, this book shows that in the case of Canada’s medical laboratory services, the exclusive use of public, non-profit organizations would be the best way to increase access, control costs, integrate services, improve quality and enhance the democratic control of health care. [...] The main perpetrators of this crisis rhetoric continue to be those who wish to lower the costs to the “wealthy and healthy” and increase the benefits to the for-profit health care corporations. [...] The history of the development of medical laboratory services in Canada goes to the heart of the debate on the private delivery of publicly insured medi- cal services. [...] The evolution of community laboratory services is the story of the development of three multinational health service corporations — mds/ LifeLabs, cml and Dynacare — and the intentional undermining of public, non-profit laboratory services. [...] In 1884, the newly formed Ontario Provincial Board of Health established, on the grounds of the University of Toronto, one of the first public health laboratories in North America (Bator and Rhodes 1990).
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-134)
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- 338.4/76102840971
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Table of Contents
- Contents 5
- Medical laboratories and the Public-Private Debate 9
- Chapter 1 18
- Medical laboratory services before Medicare 18
- Ontarios community laboratory services by corporate interests. This is the story in the next chapter. 23
- Chapter 2 24
- The Rise of the For-Profits 19681990 24
- Chapter 3 42
- Support for Non-Profit Delivery 42
- Chapter 4 52
- For-Profits Consolidate Power 19902010 52
- Chapter 5 71
- The Winners MDS GDML and CML 71
- Chapter 6 78
- Chapter 7 92
- Cost and integration 92
- Chapter 8 105
- Quality and accessibility 105
- Chapter 9 116
- Physicians Political Process and Private Profit 116
- Personal Communications 127
- References 128
