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AIMS Fellow in Health Care Policy Dr. David Zitner teams up with Dianne Kelderman, CEO of the Nova Scotia Cooperative Council, to explain how community-controlled, user-centred health care is an option worth considering.

AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley was one of the international experts gathered to discuss publicly funded health care at the Lessons from Abroad" conference hosted by the Galen Institute and International Policy Network in Washington. His presentation prompted this blog entry in MedPage Today.

Based on a presentation to the international health reform conference in Washington hosted by the Galen Institute and the International Policy Network.

Johan Hjertqvist summarises the healthcare advances made in Stockholm during the 1990s, describing the reforming process and its good results, but also new difficulties that have cropped up along the way.

The Swedish Health Care in Transition project is written by Swedish health care reformer Johan Hjertqvist, and is published jointly by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (www.fcpp.org ) in Winnipeg. The project is generously supported by the Max Bell Foundation.

AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley was invited to speak at the Galen Institute's "Lessons from Abroad" conference on healthcare. The Institute highlighted the conference in its latest newsletter.

In this op-ed that appeared in the Providence Journal, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley explains why drug re-importation from Canada will not solve the problem of rising prescription drug costs in the United States. He reminds Americans how the US legal system imposes a huge tax on health care that Canadians do not have to pay.

In this op-ed that appeared in the Buffalo News, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley explains why drug re-importation from Canada will not solve the problem of rising prescription drug costs in the United States.

The New Brunswick government is looking at its ageing population and talking about the need to plan now for more nursing home beds. In this story, AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill points out that it is better for the private sector to supply the extra beds, then burden the province's taxpayers.

Two articles in recent days have sung the praises of AIMS' work in communicating to Canadian audiences Sweden's success in bringing consumer choice and accountability to publicly-funded health care. And in Alberta, Edmonton Journal columnist and National Post Editorial Board member Lorne Gunter also congratulates AIMS and other policy institutes that have worked to bring the Swedish story to Canada. According to Gunter, The point is, there are not merely two models of health care -- a state monopoly or laissez-faire. There are dozens of models around the world that successfully combine public and private elements, while increasing patient choice and service, and keeping costs in check. It is well past time our politicians considered them.

Two articles in recent days have sung the praises of AIMS' work in communicating to Canadian audiences Sweden's success in bringing consumer choice and accountability to publicly-funded health care. William Watson, editorializing in the Financial Post, congratulated AIMS, writing: The Swedes have grasped the crucial point that still escapes so many Canadian health-care decision-makers, namely, that the state can purchase health care for all without providing health care for anyone.

Canadian and US Think Tanks Release Joint Evaluation on Universal Health Care in Maryland

AIMS Receives Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award for Excellence in Public Policy Think Tank Work

Unhealthy spending threatens health care

On 16 May 2006, AIMS gathered the leading experts on the gap in prescription drug coverage from across the country.

Author and research director on the reform of social services in Sweden Johan Hjertqvist describes the steps Sweden has taken, to modernize the ways in which health care is delivered.

An invitation to lunch with urban visionary Mayor John Norquist of Milwaukee, lessons from the west coast's experience with property rights in the fishery and Brian Lee Crowley on how Employment Insurance causes unemployment.

The White House Comes to AIMS: David Frum on Canada-US relations, why educators are blame AIMS for their own problems plus Brian Lee Crowley on natural gas distribution and the danger of opting for cheap pills now versus new drugs tomorrow.