Don’t Close the Shutters
David Zitner and Brian Lee Crowley analyse some recent proposals to protect the privacy of individual medical records, and find that they would greatly increase the cost and reduce the efficacy of medical research while conferring little benefit in terms of additional privacy. They recommend a less draconian solution, one consistent with the community's need to maximise its knowledge about its own health and the effectiveness of various medical procedures. Click here to read "Don't Close the Shutters", originally published in The Medical Post on 11 January 2000.
The best prescription for our ailing medicare is in Europe, not the U.S.
Our myopic fear of Americanizing our health care system blinds us to the many constructive reforms to publicly-financed health care that Europeans have introduced in recent years in response to the same sort of challenges our home grown medicare faces. Publication: CHH December 26, 1999; SJT, January 9, 2000. By Nancy Faraday-Smith
We Can Get There From Here
Professor Peter Aucoin, one of this country's most distinguished scholars on public administration, has written a special piece exclusively for AIMS on the necessity of strengthening the civil service if Nova Scotia is to improve the quality of public policy and governance in the province. Professor Aucoin's analysis, which draws on innovative civil service reforms in other countries as well as elsewhere in Canada, should be mandatory reading for all those involved in the public sector restructuring that balancing the provincial budget will require.
Premier Brian Tobin Accepts AIMS Silver Piggy Bank Award for Province’s Fiscal Management
Denotes the second best fiscal performance in Atlantic Canada
How you gonna keep ’em down on the Rock?
Is Brian Tobin a fiscal conservative? The idea that a premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, the poorest province in the land, is actually a careful and prudent manager of tax dollars may appear hard to swallow to many people in the rest of the country. Rightly or wrongly, people often picture the Newfoundland government as always having its hand out, bemoaning the province's victimization by outside forces, unwilling to take charge of its own fate. Yet the truth is rather different.