The fiscal sustainability of health care in Canada / edited by Gregory P. Marchildon, Tom McIntosh and Pierre-Gerlier Forest.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marchildon, Gregory P., 1956- editor.

McIntosh, Thomas A. (Thomas Allan), 1964- editor.

Forest, Pierre-Gerlier, editor.

Series:

The Romanow Papers ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--Canada.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction: The Many Worlds of Fiscal Sustainability / Marchildon, Gregory P.

Part One: Cost Factors

1. Technological Change as a Cost-Driver in Health Care / Morgan, Steve / Hurley, Jeremiah

2. How an Ageing Population Will Affect Health Care / Hogan, Seamus / Hogan, Sarah

3. Medical Malpractice, the Common Law, and Health-Care Reform / Caulfield, Timothy

4. Section 7 of the Charter and Health-Care Spending / Jackman, Martha

Part Two: The Financing and Delivery of Health Care

5. Financing Health Care: Options, Consequences, and Objectives / Evans, Robert G.

6. Determining the Extent of Public Financing of Programs and Services / Ramsay, Cynthia

7. Delivering Health Care: Public, Not-for-Profit, or Private? / Deber, Raisa B.

Part Three: Federal-Provincial Fiscal Dynamics

8. Increasing Provincial Revenues for Health Care / Rode, Melissa / Rushton, Michael

9. The Changing Political and Economic Environment of Health Care / Boychuk, Gerard W.

10. Paying to Play? Government Financing and Health Care Agenda Setting / Fierlbeck, Katherine

Part Four: International Trade Regimes

11. International Trade Agreements and Canadian Health Care / Johnson, Jon R.

12. The Effects of International Trade Agreements and Options for Upcoming Negotiations / Ouellet, Richard

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 22, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4426-2818-9

1-281-99628-9

9786611996284

1-4426-8128-4

OCLC:

903441029