Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?

Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?

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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subject:
Public-private sector cooperation -- Case studies.
Medical policy -- Case studies.
Medical care -- Law and legislation -- Canada.
Medical policy -- Canada.
Medical care -- Canada -- Evaluation.
Public-private sector cooperation.
Medical policy.
Medical care -- Law and legislation.
Medical care -- Evaluation.
Canada.
Case studies.
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.
Description based on print version record.
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

"....overcoming the many barriersand interest groups opposed to universal medicare was a hard-won political warwaged over many years, particularly with respect to medical associations whofought tooth and nail against the prospect of a public health care system andvarious politicians who were ideologically in favour of maintaining a significantrole for private health insurance.  Themelange of laws that exist across the provinces, and the Canada Health Actitself, are thus a product of the particular history and context of medicare,including political accommodations necessary to bring doctors into the publicplan (for example, they are not public employees but independent contractorsmostly paid on a fee-for-service basis with still relatively littlegovernmental control over their clinical decision-making)."

Excerpted from Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future? by Sara Allin, Sarah Barry, Sara Burke, Danielle Dawson, Stephen Duckett, Noushon Farmanara, Lorraine Doetter, Vanessa Gruben, Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, Jeremiah E. Hurley, Martha Jackman, Bridget Johnston, Fiona McDonald, Rachel McKay, Jonathan Mullen, Zeynep Or, Gregory P. Marchildon, Aurélie Pierre, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, David Rudoler, Achim Schmid, Rikke Siersbaek, Stephen Thomas All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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