Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?

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Imprint:Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
2020
Description:1 online resource (348 pages.).
Language:English
Series:Law, technology and media
Law, technology, and media.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12345982
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Other authors / contributors:Thomas, Bryan, 1973- editor.
Flood, Colleen M., editor.
Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN:9780776628080
0776628089
9780776628073
Notes:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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 book explores whether a two-tier model is a solution. In Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?, leading researchers explore the public and private mix in Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and Ireland. They explain the history and complexity of interactions between public and private funding of health care and the many regulations and policies found in different countries used to both inhibit and sometimes to encourage two-tier care, such as tax breaks. This edited collection provides critical evidence on the different approaches to regulating two-tier care across different countries and what could work in Canada.
Other form:Print version: 9780776628073