Une nouvelle avenue: L’ouverture d’une clinique IRM dirigée par des autochtones pourrait remettre en cause notre régime de santé
La première clinique d'imagerie par résonance magnétique (IRM) dirigée par des autochtones doit ouvrir ses portes sur le territoire de la nation crie de Muskeg Lake, à l'est de Saskatoon, au printemps 2005. Cette occasion convient parfaitement aux entrepreneurs d'un bout à l'autre du pays qui cherchent à trouver une faille dans le régime d'assurance-maladie qui permettra l'émergence d'une solution de rechange sous forme d'un secteur privé de soins de santé. Dans sa chronique régulière dans La Presse, le plus grand quotidien de langue française de l’Amérique du Nord, le président de AIMS, Brian Lee Crowley observe que, «Seule la venue d'une véritable concurrence, par laquelle les patients auront vraiment le choix de l'endroit où ils pourront bénéficier de soins de santé et par qui ils seront dispensés, est capable de sauver le système public.»
A tide of red ink erodes services in Canada
A change in government and an ensuing public sector labour dispute brought into focus the desperate fiscal situation facing Newfoundland and Labrador in the spring of 2004. But Newfoundland and Labrador are not alone. Canada's 10 provinces collectively registered budget shortfalls of more than $4 billion last year the weakest financial performance in six years, according to the Dominion Bond Rating Service. In this article in the International Herald Tribune, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley attributed some of this poor performance to the fact, "We have created a health care system that is a voracious devourer of every public dollar we have."
AIMS Online April 16, 2004
Peter Fenwick comments Newfoundland’s Showdown with its Unions, AIMS contribution to the Chronicle Herald's series on ACOA, David Zitner on health care co-ops and Brian Lee crowley examines tax cuts in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Transforming equalization
Last month's federal budget renewed one of Canada's most sacred policy cows -- our $10-billion equalization program -- for another five years. The last of a three-part series looks at how equalization can be transformed.
Tasmania’s devil is in the details
Last month's federal budget renewed one of Canada's most sacred policy cows -- our $10-billion equalization program -- for another five years. The second of a three-part series looks at how equalization doesn't work Down Under.
Equalization buys big government
Last month's federal budget renewed one of Canada's most sacred policy cows -- our $10-billion equalization program -- for another five years. The first of a three-part series looks at how equalization locks "have-not" provinces into enormous welfare traps.