Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future? /
Canadians are deeply worried about wait times for health care. Entrepreneurial doctors and private clinics are bringing Charter challenges to existing laws restrictive of a two-tier system. They argue that Canada is an outlier among developed countries in limiting options to jump the queue. This boo...
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2020
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the courts and two-tier medicare / Colleen M. Flood and Bryan Thomas
- part I. The context and contestations of public and private in the Canadian health care system. Private finance and Canadian Medicare : learning from history / Gregory P. Marchildon
- Chaoulli to Cambie : Charter challenges to the regulation of private care / Martha Jackman
- Borders, fences, and crossings : regulating parallel private finance in health care / Jeremiah Hurley
- Chaoulli v Quebec : cause or symptom of quebec health system privatization? / Amelie Quesnel-Vallee, Rachel McKay, and Noushon Farmanara
- Experiences with two-tier home care in Canada : a focus on inequalities in home care use by income in Ontario / Sara Allin, David Rudoler, Danielle Dawson, and Jonathan Mullen
- Self-regulation as a means of regulating privately financed Medicare : what can we learn from the fertility sector? / Vanessa Gruben
- part II. Is Canada odd? Looking at the regulation of public/private mix of health care in other countries. The politics of market-oriented reforms: lessons from the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Netherlands / Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
- The public-private mix in health care : reflections on the interplay between social and private insurance in Germany / Achim Schmid and Lorraine Frisina Doetter
- The public-private mix in France : a case for two-tier health care? / Zeynep Or and Aurelie Pierre
- Embracing private finance and private provision : the Australian system / Fiona McDonald and Stephen Duckett
- Embracing and disentangling from private finance : the Irish system / Stephen Thomas, Sarah Barry, Bridget Johnston, Rikke Siersbaek, and Sara Burke
- Contracting our way around two-tier care? the use of physician contracts to limit dual practice / Bryan Thomas
- Conclusion : the complex dynamics of Canadian Medicare and the Constitution / Colleen M. Flood and Bryan Thomas.