Canada and the United States have conducted a large-scale social experiment on the
effects of alternative ways of funding expenditures for health care. Two very similar societies …

Health policy changes intended to achieve cost control in OECD countries run the risk of
reintroducing financial barriers to health care. However, although the problems faced are …

Uniform and binding fee schedules for physicians have been advanced as a cost-control
strategy that can also improve patient access to care, as well as spread costs more …

This article examines the theoretical and practical logics of community engagement
exercises in health care rationing. To evaluate such exercises in Canada, it is necessary to …

“Control” of health care costs is often portrayed as a struggle between external,“natural”
forces pushing costs up and individuals, groups, and societies trying to resist the inevitable …

Ethical concepts lie at the core of how quality of life in aging is defined and enhanced.
Although recent American attention has been largely focused on autonomy as an important …

Canada's health care system, the nation's most popular publicly financed service, has for
years demonstrated a capacity to deliver universal, high-quality medical care for …

Public policy can be conceptualized as the attempt to balance competing notions of the
responsibility of individuals, families, and the state in developing programs to meet human …

In Ontario, one-third of the provincial budget is spent on treatment-oriented, institutionally
based medical care. Urgently needed, some critics say, is a shift toward less costly …

In 1994, the Government of Alberta passed the Regional Health Authorities Act to abolish
nearly 200 existing local hospital and public health boards and replace them with seventeen …