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Title Medicare : facts, myths, problems, promise / edited by Bruce Campbell and Greg Marchildon.

Publication Info. Toronto : J. Lorimer & Co., [2007]
©2007

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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  362.10971 ME    Check Shelf
Description 460 pages : illustrations.
Series Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives series
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-440) and index.
Contents SOS medicare : a (cautionary) tale of two conferences / Shirley Douglas -- The struggle - at home and in the world - for health care as a human right / Stephen Lewis -- The Douglas legacy and the future of medicare / Greg Marchildon -- Fulfilling the Douglas/Lloyd vision / Allan E. Blakeney -- The Canada Health Act : lessons for today and tomorrow / Monique Bégin -- Healthy children first / Tom Kent -- The collective action problem / Robert McMurtry -- Styles of rationing health care : the United States vs. Canada / Uwe E. Reinhardt -- How to protect a public health care system / Alan Maynard -- The truth about the drug companies / Marcia Angell -- Market-based health care in the United States and its lessons for Canada / Arnold S. Relman -- Protecting medicare from foreign commercial interests / Scott Sinclair -- Canada's single-payer medicare : role model for Taiwan / May Tsung-Mei Cheng -- Economic myths and political realities : the inequality agenda and the sustainability of medicare / Robert G. Evans -- Chaoulli's legacy for the future of Canadian health care policy / Colleen Flood -- Bill 33 : the fallout from the Chaoulli decision in Quebec and its impact on equity in healthcare / Marie-Claude Prémont -- P3 hospitals and the principles of medicare / Steven Shrybman -- Changing the landscape in the health care affordability debate / Diana Gibson -- Completing the vision : achieving the second stage of medicare / Michael Rachlis -- Health human resources : a nurse's perspective / Linda Silas -- The electronic health record : the neglected key to saving medicare / Steven Lewis -- Health care reform as if women mattered / Pat Armstrong -- Pharmacare : equity, efficiency, and effectiveness : we've waited long enough / Joel Lexchin -- Federal pharmacare : prescription for an ailing federation? / Greg Marchildon -- A strategy for mental health / Patricia J. Martens -- Home and community care in Canada : the unfinished policy / Judith Shamian -- Completing the vision : prevention and community health centres / France Gélinas -- It's about equity and going upstream : health for all / Monique Bégin -- Poverty and health : implications for health and quality of life / Dennis Raphael -- Growing inequality, basic needs, and health / Armine Yalnizyan -- People are dying for a home / Cathy Crowe -- Miyo-Mâhcihowin : self-determination, social determinants, and indigenous health / Willie Ermine and Eber Hampton -- Canada's shared destiny and the future of medicare / Roy Romanow -- Medicare as mainstream agenda : the second stage / Danielle Martin -- The wrong kind of rights : the charter threat to medicare / Andrew Petter -- It's all about the people / Elizabeth Ballerman -- The continental deep integration threat / Maude Barlow -- Talking solutions / Marcy Cohen -- A political agenda for building medicare's next state / Doris Grinspun.
Subject National Health Programs -- Canada.
Delivery of Health Care -- economics -- Canada.
Health Policy -- Canada.
Public Health -- economics -- Canada.
Medical care -- Canada.
Medical policy -- Canada.
Public health -- Canada.
Added Author Campbell, Bruce, 1948-
Marchildon, Gregory P., 1956-
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
ISBN 9781552770009
1552770001
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