The Fiscal Sustainability of Health Care - the first of a three-volume set of selected papers from the Romanow Commission - comprises the most influential discussion papers on the fiscal sustainability of public health care in the future. The subjects covered include the current and potential cost drivers of the system, the financing and delivery of health care, fiscal federalism, and international trade regimes. While some of the contributors are among Canada's best known and respected figures in the field, others are relatively new scholars from Canada and abroad who bring fresh perspectives and new insights to the issue of fiscal sustainability.
Presenting divergent diagnoses and policy prescriptions, the papers collectively highlight the many factors that governments and health care sector managers must confront to keep the Canadian health care system viable in the 21st century.
Authors
Gregory P. Marchildon, Gregory Marchildon, Pierre-Gerlier Forest, Tom McIntosh
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 362.1/0971
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Papers originally commissioned as part of the research activities of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada headed by Roy J. Romanow Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781442681286 0802086195
- LCCN
- RA395.C2
- LCCN Item number
- R65 2004 v.1eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (387 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00602325 (OCoLC)431576057 (CaOOCEL)418503
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 8
- CONTRIBUTORS 10
- Introduction: The Many Worlds of Fiscal Sustainability 14
- Part One: Cost Factors 36
- 1 Technological Change as a Cost-Driver in Health Care 38
- 2 How an Ageing Population Will Affect Health Care 62
- 3 Medical Malpractice, the Common Law, and Health-Care Reform 92
- 4 Section 7 of the Charter and Health-Care Spending 121
- Part Two: The Financing and Delivery of Health Care 148
- 5 Financing Health Care: Options, Consequences, and Objectives 150
- 6 Determining the Extent of Public Financing of Programs and Services 208
- 7 Delivering Health Care: Public, Not-for-Profit, or Private? 244
- Part Three: Federal–Provincial Fiscal Dynamics 308
- 8 Increasing Provincial Revenues for Health Care 310
- 9 The Changing Political and Economic Environment of Health Care 331
- 10 Paying to Play? Government Financing and Agenda Setting for Health Care 351
- Part Four: International Trade Regimes 378
- 11 International Trade Agreements and Canadian Health Care 380
- 12 The Effects of International Trade Agreements and Options for Upcoming Negotiations 414
