Health Insurance And Canadian Public Policy

Author : Malcolm G. Taylor,Allan Maslove
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773584976

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In Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy, Malcolm Taylor describes the emergence of Medicare, providing an interesting window into current health care debates. He discusses the seemingly endless series of federal-provincial exchanges and negotiations involving issues of jurisdiction, cost allocations, revenue transfers, and taxing authorities as well as efforts to accommodate opposition from various special interests that would eventually evolve into a system that provided access to adequate health care for all Canadians on the basis of need, irrespective of financial circumstances.

Author : Malcolm Gordon Taylor,Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration of Canada = Institut d'administration publique du Canada
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773506292

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Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy by Malcolm Gordon Taylor,Institute of Public Administration of Canada Pdf

In Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy, Malcolm Taylor describes the emergence of Medicare, providing an interesting window into current health care debates. He discusses the seemingly endless series of federal-provincial exchanges and negotiations involving issues of jurisdiction, cost allocations, revenue transfers, and taxing authorities as well as efforts to accommodate opposition from various special interests that would eventually evolve into a system that provided access to adequate health care for all Canadians on the basis of need, irrespective of financial circumstances. Long considered the definitive study of Medicare in Canada, Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy clearly identifies the crucial contribution of political courage and leadership in achieving a single-payer, publicly funded system. A new introduction by Allan Maslove discusses the book's relevance to contemporary debates and drives home two important themes - that conflicts between federal and provincial governments are not new and that, in spite of opposition from various organized interests, strong popular support for Medicare insured that the initial project was not derailed.

Author : Malcolm Gordon Taylor
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration of Canada ; Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038729716

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Gesundheitswesen / Kanada / Geschichte.

Author : Malcolm G. Taylor,Allan Maslove
Publisher : MQUP
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773535667

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Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy by Malcolm G. Taylor,Allan Maslove Pdf

In Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy, Malcolm Taylor describes the emergence of Medicare, providing an interesting window into current health care debates. He discusses the seemingly endless series of federal-provincial exchanges and negotiations involving issues of jurisdiction, cost allocations, revenue transfers, and taxing authorities as well as efforts to accommodate opposition from various special interests that would eventually evolve into a system that provided access to adequate health care for all Canadians on the basis of need, irrespective of financial circumstances.

Author : Gerard W. Boychuk
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781589013773

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National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada by Gerard W. Boychuk Pdf

After World War II, the United States and Canada, two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the United States opted for a dual system that combines public health insurance for low-income and senior residents with private, primarily employer-provided health insurance—or no insurance—for everyone else. In National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, Gerard W. Boychuk probes the historical development of health care in each country, honing in on the most distinctive social and political aspects of each country—the politics of race in the U.S. and territorial politics in Canada, especially the tensions between the national government and the province of Quebec. In addition to the politics of race and territory, Boychuk sifts through the numerous factors shaping health policy, including national values, political culture and institutions, the power of special interests, and the impact of strategic choices made at critical junctures. Drawing on historical archives, oral histories, and public opinion data, he presents a nuanced and thoughtful analysis of the evolution of the two systems, compares them as they exist today, and reflects on how each is poised to meet the challenges of the future.

Author : David Naylor
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1986-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773561113

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Private Practice, Public Payment by David Naylor Pdf

Naylor's particular concern is with the nature and extent of the medical profession's opposition at both the provincial and federal levels. He details various developments in medical politics and policies, including the dispute over state health insurance plans in British Columbia during the depression, the national health insurance program drafted by the King government, the doctors' strike in Saskatchewan, and the development and eventual governmental rejections of prepayment plans sponsored by organized medicine. The author concludes that physicians regarded medical insurance schemes over which they had little administrative control, or where coverage was not limited to the indigent or to those earning below a modest wage, as threats to professional incomes and autonomy. His analysis of the evolution of the professional perspectives, policies, and pressure group activities suggests that physicians are as likely to act in their own economic and social interest as any other group, and that they oppose legislation that would threaten these interests while supporting laws that strengthen them. Since the Medical Care Act became law, Ottawa has moved to strengthen health care plans in the provinces, and once again the medical profession has resisted. The final chapter in Naylor's book puts these current conflicts in historical perspective by linking them to their political precedents.

Author : Gregory Marchildon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781442662421

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Making Medicare by Gregory Marchildon Pdf

The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC television contest. However, very little has been written to date on how Medicare as we know it was developed and implemented. This collection fills a serious gap in the existing literature by providing a comprehensive policy history of Medicare in Canada. Making Medicare features explorations of the experiments that predated the federal government’s decision to implement the Saskatchewan health care model, from Newfoundland’s cottage hospital system to Bennettcare in British Columbia. It also includes essays by key individuals (including health practitioners and two premiers) who played a role in the implementation of Medicare and the landmark Royal Commission on Health Services. Along with political scientists, policy specialists, medical historians, and health practitioners, this collection will appeal to anyone interested in the history and legacy of one of Canada’s most visible and centrally important institutions.

Author : Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher : IIGR, Queen's University
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780889118591

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Health Policy and Federalism by Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Intergovernmental Relations Pdf

An examination of whether federal institutions influence policy outcomes in the health sector.

Author : Antonia Maioni
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691057966

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Parting at the Crossroads by Antonia Maioni Pdf

Beyond the debate about the desirability of Canadian-style health care reforms, Antonia Maioni sees another question: Why did the United States and Canada, alike in so many ways, part "at the crossroads" to produce such different systems of health insurance? She answers this previously neglected query so interestingly that her book will hold the attention of anyone concerned with health care in either country or both.

Author : United States. Health Resources Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Cost control
ISBN : UCSD:31822015813702

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Government Controls on the Health Care System by United States. Health Resources Administration Pdf

Author : Steven Globerman,Aidan R. Vining,University of Toronto. Centre for Public Management
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Health care reform
ISBN : NWU:35556029064938

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Cure Or Disease? by Steven Globerman,Aidan R. Vining,University of Toronto. Centre for Public Management Pdf

Author : Gregory P. Marchildon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780802097217

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Health Systems in Transition by Gregory P. Marchildon Pdf

The health care system in Canada is much-discussed in the international sphere, but often overlooked when it comes to its highly decentralized administration and regulation. Health Systems in Transition: Canada provides an objective description and analysis of the public, private, and mixed components that make up health care in Canada today including the federal, provincial, intergovernmental and regional dynamics within the public system. Gregory P. Marchildon’s study offers a statistical and visual description of the many facets of Canadian health care financing, administration, and service delivery, along with relevant comparisons to five other countries’ systems. This second edition includes a major update on health data and institutions, a new appendix of federal laws concerning select provincial and territorial Medicare legislation, and, for the first time, a comprehensive and searchable index. It also provides a more complete assessment of the Canadian health system based on financial protection, efficiency, equity, user experience, quality of care, and health outcomes. Balancing careful assessment, summary, and illustration, Health Systems in Transition: Canada is a thorough and illuminating look at one of the nation's most complex public policies and associated institutions.

Author : Richard Nadeau,Éric Bélanger,François Pétry,Stuart N Soroka,Antonia Maioni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317695295

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Health Care Policy and Opinion in the United States and Canada by Richard Nadeau,Éric Bélanger,François Pétry,Stuart N Soroka,Antonia Maioni Pdf

Heated debate surrounds the topic of health care in both the US and in Canada. In each country, these debates are based in some measure on perceptions about health care in their neighboring country. The perceptions held by Canadians about the US health care system, or those held by Americans about Canada, end up having significant impact on health policy makers in both countries. Health Care Policy and Opinion in the United States and Canada examines these perceptions and their effects using an extensive cross-national survey made up of two public opinion polls of over 3,500 respondents from the US and Canada. The book first develops a rigorous and detailed explanation of the factors that contribute to levels of satisfaction among Americans and Canadians with respect to their health care systems. It then attempts to study the perceptions of Canadians vis-à-vis the US health care system as well as the perception of Americans toward Canada’s health care system. The authors examine how these perceptions impact health policy makers, and show how the survey results indicate remarkable similarities in the opinions expressed by Americans and Canadians toward the problems in the health care system, heralding perhaps a measure of convergence in the future. The authors present how perceptions on health care indicate elements of convergence or divergence between the views of Canadians and Americans, and discuss how these citizen opinions should inform health care policy change in both countries in the near future. This book should generate interest in scholars of health care, public opinion, and comparative studies of social policies and public opinion.

Author : Joan Price Boase
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Medical
ISBN : 077351158X

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Shifting Sands by Joan Price Boase Pdf

Boase (political science, U. of Windsor, Ontario) compares how four Canadian provinces dealt with health-care interest groups during the 1970s and 1980s and finds that though they faced similar problems, they dealt with them in different ways that reflected their various political and administrative cultures. She predicts that in the climate of the national health program, the state will try harder to control the political environment and focus more on structure than on politics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Katherine Fierlbeck
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781442609839

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Health Care in Canada by Katherine Fierlbeck Pdf

Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system. Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of the system's shortcomings and call for major reform. Yet meaningful debate cannot occur without an understanding of how the system actually operates. In this overview, Fierlbeck outlines the basic framework of the health care system with reference to specific areas such as administration and governance, public health, human resources, drugs and drug policy, and mental health. She also discusses alternative models in other countries such as Britain, the United States, and France. As health care becomes increasingly complex, it is crucial that Canadians have a solid grasp of the main issues within both the policy and political environments. With its balanced and accessible assessment of the main political and theoretical debates, Health Care in Canada is an essential guide for anyone with a stake in Canada's health system.