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Is two-tier health care the future? / edited by Colleen M. Flood and Bryan Thomas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Law, technology, and mediaPublication details: Ottawa, Ontario : University of Ottawa Press, [(c)2020.]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0776628089
  • 0776628097
  • 0776628100
  • 9780776628097
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RA395.3
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Contents:
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
Summary: "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) that Canada is an outlier amongst developed countries in limiting options to jump the queue. In this book, leading researchers explore the public and private mix in Canada and within countries such as Australia, Germany, France and Ireland. We explain the history and complexity of interactions between public and private funding of health care. We also explain the many regulations and policies found in different countries used to both inhibit and sometimes to encourage two-tier care (for example, tax breaks). If a Canadian court strikes down laws restrictive of two-tier, Canadian governments can (i) permit and even encourage two-tier care to grow; (ii) pass new regulations that allow a small measure of two-tier care; or (iii) take positive steps to eliminate wait times in Canadian health care, and thereby reduce demand for two-tier care. We argue for option three as the best means to ensure Canadian principles of equity in access, ensure timely care, and fend off constitutional challenges. This work is critical not only for court challenges but also for Canadian governments who need the best evidence possible about different approaches to regulating two-tier care if they are forced by a court to revisit existing laws as a result of a successful Charter challenge."--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

"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) that Canada is an outlier amongst developed countries in limiting options to jump the queue. In this book, leading researchers explore the public and private mix in Canada and within countries such as Australia, Germany, France and Ireland. We explain the history and complexity of interactions between public and private funding of health care. We also explain the many regulations and policies found in different countries used to both inhibit and sometimes to encourage two-tier care (for example, tax breaks). If a Canadian court strikes down laws restrictive of two-tier, Canadian governments can (i) permit and even encourage two-tier care to grow; (ii) pass new regulations that allow a small measure of two-tier care; or (iii) take positive steps to eliminate wait times in Canadian health care, and thereby reduce demand for two-tier care. We argue for option three as the best means to ensure Canadian principles of equity in access, ensure timely care, and fend off constitutional challenges. This work is critical not only for court challenges but also for Canadian governments who need the best evidence possible about different approaches to regulating two-tier care if they are forced by a court to revisit existing laws as a result of a successful Charter challenge."--

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

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