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Is two-tier health care the future? /

"Canadians are deeply worried about wait times for health and this book explores whether or not two-tier health care is a solution. Entrepreneurial doctors and private clinics are bringing Charter challenges to existing laws restrictive of a two-tier system. They argue (wrongly in our view) tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Flood, Colleen M. (Editor ), Thomas, Bryan, 1973- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa, Ontario : University of Ottawa Press, 2020.
Colección:Law, technology, and media.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction: The Courts and Two-Tier Medicare
  • Part I: The Context and Contestations of Public and Private in the Canadian Health Care System
  • 1. Private Finance and Canadian Medicare: Learning from History
  • 2. Chaoulli to Cambie: Charter Challenges to the Regulation of Private Care
  • 3. Borders, Fences, and Crossings: Regulating Parallel Private Finance in Health Care
  • 4. Chaoulli v Quebec: Cause or Symptom of Quebec Health System Privatization?
  • 5. Experiences with Two-Tier Home Care in Canada: A Focus on Inequalities in Home Care Use by Income in Ontario
  • 6. Self-Regulation as a Means of Regulating Privately Financed Medicare: What Can We Learn from the Fertility Sector?
  • Part II: Is Canada Odd? Looking at the Regulation of Public/Private Mix of Health Care in Other Countries
  • 7. The Politics of Market-Oriented Reforms: Lessons from the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Netherlands
  • 8. The Public-Private Mix in Health Care: Reflections on the Interplay between Social and Private Insurance in Germany
  • 9. The Public-Private Mix in France: A Case for Two-Tier Health Care?
  • 10. Embracing Private Finance and Private Provision: The Australian System
  • 11. Embracing and Disentangling from Private Finance: The Irish System
  • 12. Contracting Our Way Around Two-Tier Care? The Use of Physician Contracts to Limit Dual Practice
  • Conclusion: The Complex Dynamics of Canadian Medicare and the Constitution
  • Contributors' Biographies
  • Acknowlegments
  • Index
  • Back Cover