5-minute read
Le financement des hôpitaux à l’activité: l’attente a assez duré
Hospital funding reforms.
1-minute read
Activity-Based Hospital Funding: We’ve Waited Long Enough
With the Quebec hospital network's difficulties continuing to make headlines, especially when it comes to wait times, calls to reform the way hospitals are funded have become increasingly common in recent months. At the beginning of the year, the director general of the McGill University Health Center and the Quebec Association of Health and Social Services Institutions each in turn proposed that hospitals should from now on be financed according to services provided, as is done in many countries.
4-minute read
Jogging with Mao
We must rethink our health-care system.
4-minute read
Vivre est une activité dangereuse
In the name of public safety, two coroners recommend the removal of cough syrups from tablets.
5-minute read
Un système de santé universel n’est pas incompatible avec une participation importante du privé
The benefits of for-profit private hospitals in Germany.
4-minute read
Système de santé universel et le privé : prendre exemple sur l’Allemagne
The benefits of for-profit private hospitals in Germany.
4-minute read
Germany proves private and health care can go together
The benefits of for-profit private hospitals in Germany.
3-minute read
Germany’s hospital system works
The benefits of for-profit private hospitals in Germany.
5-minute read
Get Ontario to work
Don Drummond’s report on Ontario’s finances.
2-minute read
The private sector within a public health care system: the German example
The Canadian health care system is an oddity among developed countries in that the public sector is not only responsible for most of the financing of the health care system, but also has a near complete monopoly on the delivery of hospital care. In Europe, where public financing is as prevalent as in Canada, if not more so, the private for-profit sector has an extensive role to play in delivering service.