Alternative Ways to Finance Medicare
Medicare can cost less and do more
Medicare and User Fees
Carl Irvine and Dr. David Gratzer provide a second opinion about the practicality and implications of introducing some form of cost sharing to the Canadian health care system.
Better Business Means Better Health
Is Canada is losing the global competition for health professionals?
AIMS On-Line for early December 2002
Here is what's new at AIMS, Atlantic Canada's Public Policy Think Tank
Critics lambaste Romanow over ‘complacent defence of status quo’
The day after the release of AIMS latest study, "Definitely Not the Romanow Report: Achieving Equity, Sustainability, Accountability and Consumer Empowerment in Canadian Health Care”, the ideas put forward received national attention as newspapers across the country focused on the innovative alternatives being put forward. In this article, Steve Macleod from the Canadian Press states that, “the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, in a scathing report released Tuesday, criticizes Romanow for his role as head of a royal commission on the future of health care. Brian Crowley, the report's co-author, accuses Romanow of hearing only what he wants to hear, and ruling out many of the innovations that have vaulted several Western countries ahead of Canada in terms of health-care delivery.”
Ideology blinds Romanow – National Post explores alternative solutions being offered by AIMS
AIMS latest study, Definitely Not the Romanow Report: Achieving Equity, Sustainability, Accountability and Consumer Empowerment in Canadian Health Care, released today, was reported on the front page of the National Post this morning. The study, an alternative to this Thursday's widely anticipated Romanow report, concludes that Canadians must take more responsibility for their health and pay more for services in a smaller, more competitive public system. With the national debate increasingly focused on only two alternatives: increased taxes or reduced services, Definitely Not the Romanow Report will supply a broader and more innovative list of solutions to widen the debate and encourage thoughtful reform. To see the national attention being paid to the ideas being brought forward by AIMS, read the full piece by Tom Arnold.