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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ottawa, Ontario :
University of Ottawa Press,
2020.
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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