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Monopoly Medicine: Canadians are suffering under too many laws that dictate how doctors work and how patients are treated. How about a little freedom?
Health care reform in Canada.
4-minute read
Saving medicare: Governments must repeal restrictions on private health-care services
Health care reform in Canada.
5-minute read
The Stockholm Syndrome: Swedish health-care reforms show a private-public mix can lower costs while pleasing patients, doctors and unions
Health care reform in Canada.
1-minute read
Les hôpitaux publics: des avenues de réforme par un partenariat avec l’entreprise privée
With governments up against higher health care spending, partnerships between the public and private sectors can offer innovative ways of controlling costs and improving services. Experience shows that such partnerships in construction and hospital management can provide major advantages. However, those who develop public policy must negotiate carefully and devise rules that are well thought out to ensure universal access, quality care and greater efficiency.
4-minute read
Too much rhetoric in health-care debate
Public opinion favours a bigger private role in insurance and the delivery of health services in Canada.
4-minute read
New attitudes: Surveys show that Canadian public increasingly wants the freedom to use private health care
Public opinion favours a bigger private role in insurance and the delivery of health services in Canada.
5-minute read
COMMENT / A healthy starting point: Alberta proposals on medicare are courageous but don’t go far enough
The MEI reacts to the Mazankowski Report on Alberta’s health care system.
3-minute read
Commentary on the Mazankowski Report on Alberta’s health care system
The MEI reacts to the Mazankowski Report on Alberta’s health care system.
4-minute read
Santé: pas de réforme sans le privé
Health care reform in Canada.
1-minute read
Universal Private Choice: Medicare Plus – A Concept of Health Care With Quality, Access and Choice For All Canadians (2nd Edition)
We are proposing a new approach to the financing, insuring and delivery of medical and hospital services. While retaining universal entitlement to Medicare insurance, as a core publicly funded service, we propose a new concept of universal private choice. This includes Medicare, as well as voluntary private medical, hospital and health insurance alternatives, as exist in all other OECD countries. Our aim is to improve quality, access and choice for all Canadians.