Patient Power and Provider Competition: Is the Swedish Health Care Approach Right for Canada?
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.
AIMS On-Line for mid September 2001
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Trying times reinforce common US-Canada bond
A brief statement by AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley on the tragic events of September 11, 2001
Debate on health care reform: no end in sight
In his regular Chronicle Herald column AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley explores the reasons why the debate on health care will take on greater and greater importance in the coming years. Most people are aware that health costs are going up, but few realize that the rate of growth is about to accelerate massively. New technologies, the increased incidence of chronic and new illnesses, and the significant cost of system renewal will force giant leaps in health costs in coming years. While starving funding for education and roads can provide some measure of short-term relief, the pressure is building. The tax system alone will not be able to handle these costs and a new balance of public and private expenditures will have to be found and the debate has barely even begun. Publication: CHH, September 12, 2001
Boom or Bust
Writing in the Globe and Mail, the Honourable John Crosbie, former federal minister and current AIMS Vice Chairman for Newfoundland and Labrador, reviews the offshore agreements between Ottawa and the Atlantic Provinces. These agreements were intended to ensure that Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador were the “principal beneficiaries” of development. In Crosbie’s view Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador receive resource revenues from the federal government in one pocket, and have most of those revenues taken out of another. This is not what the Atlantic and offshore accords were intended to accomplish. Crosbie believes it is time that Ottawa lived up to its agreements.
Bastiat: The man who saw what wasn’t there
In a recent piece published in the Financial Post, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley, pays tribute to one of the pioneers of clear thinking economics. Frédéric Bastiat, whose bicentennial is celebrated this year, was a brilliant French writer, polemicist and economist of the mid-nineteenth century who often challenged the well-intentioned actions of government by exploring their hidden consequences.