Exploring social insurance : can a dose of Europe cure Canadian health care finance? /
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| Imprint: | Montreal ; Ithaca : [Published for the] School of Policy Studies, Queen's University [by] McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008. |
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| Description: | xii, 290 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Queen's policy studies Queen's policy studies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7351200 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables and Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Seeking the Grail: Financing for Quality, Accessibility, and Sustainability in the Health Care System
- 2. Health Care Financing, Efficiency, and Equity
- 3. Efficient and Fair Financing of the Public Share of Canadian Health Care Insurance with Greater Reliance on the User-Pay Approach
- 4. Payroll-Tax Financed Health Insurance: A Way for the Future?
- 5. Social Insurance versus Tax Financing in Health Care: Reflections from Germany
- 6. A Competitive Market for Social Health Insurance in Five Countries: Is There a Relation between Funding and Organizing Health Care?
- 7. Funding Health Care Services: The Optimal Balance
- 8. The Comparative Dimension of Policy Analysis: Rules of the Game?
- 9. Challenges and Changes in Pharmacare: Could Social Insurance Be the Answer?
- 10. Between the Dream and Sleepwalking: Pragmatic Possibilities for Canada
- 11. Policy and Politics: A Commentary on the Conference on Social Insurance for Health Care: Economic, Legal, and Political Considerations
- 12. Conclusion
- Index
- Contributors
