Principles to Guide a Unified Funding Model for Non-Medicare (non-insured) Health and Social Services
Author Betty Newson argues argues that Canada’s sustained health care debate has tended to focus primarily on insured Medicare—hospital and medical services and analysis has often overlooked the fragmented funding arrangements in these sectors.
How Should We Decide What to Cover Under Medicare?
Julia Witt takes up this challenge by looking at the Oregon approach to health care coverage decision-making, and demonstrates how an improved version of the Oregon model would result in a truer reflection of the collective values of society’s members in deciding what medical services should have first claim on the scarce public health care dollars available.
Issues in the Demand for Medical Care
Professor Brian S. Ferguson explores the concept of physician induced demand, one of the fundamental underpinnings of the policy where government limits enrolment in medical schools and artificially limits the number of Canadian physicians.
Doctors Have to Make a Living Too
Doctors Have to Make a Living Too: The Microeconomcs of Physician Practice delves into the misconceptions about cost drivers in the health care field.
Profits and Insurance: AIMS releases first two health care reform backgrounder papers
Profits and the Hospital Sector and Canadian Health Care Insurance
Profits and the Hospital Sector
Brian S. Ferguson explores the anti-for-profit bias in the public debate on health reform and concludes that there is, in fact, a considerable amount of evidence to show that there is no systematic differences in efficiency between for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals.