Securing Our Health System for the Future
Read the bookThe federal government has recently announced that it will to continue to increase healthcare transfers to the provinces at a rate of 6% until 2016-7. After that funding will be tied to economic performance. It has opted to withdraw from the policy debate around health, leaving the provinces to tackle the growing problems in the area on their own.
Is this the right approach?
Opinion
and issues
May 11, 2012
Healthcare panelists ask: has the federal government abandoned its role?
Ottawa – The health care debate has evolved since the publication of The Canada We Want in 2020, prompting a…
May 10, 2012
Opinion: We can save money and improve health care
Ontario needs to find $2 billion in annual health care savings. Provincial premiers and health care stakeholders had been gearing…
May 6, 2012
Issues: Securing our health system for the future
The debate in health is far from where we expected it to be when we started work on The Canada…
April 25, 2012
Opinion: Whither the health debate?
The current federal health accord expires in 2014. Most expected that, by now, we would be entering a period of…
Events
May 10, 2012
The Canada We Want in 2020: Securing our Health System for the Future
Speakers: Francesca Grosso, Mark Stabile, Michael Decter, Philippe Couillard
May 25, 2011
Health Care 2014: Creating a Sustainable Health Care System
Speakers: David Dodge, Jeff Turnbull, Michael Decter, Michael Kirby
October 28, 2008
Canada 2020 Speakers Series: Dr. Brian Day, Canadian Medical Association President
Speakers: Dr. Brian Day, The Hon. John Manley
Featured Links
April 25, 2012
How should federal health transfers be calculated?
Livio Di Matteo argues on the iPolitics site that a strict per capita funding formula (as laid out in the new healthcare…
March 28, 2012
Senate committee calls for greater federal role in healthcare
The `no strings attached’ approach to federal health transfers undermines the possibility of transformative change across the country.
March 28, 2012
On healthcare, it is time to apply the lessons we should already have learnt
Francesca Grosso offers solutions for healthcare reform and cost-cutting in Ontario.
March 7, 2012
Jeffrey Simpson argues for a greater federal role in healthcare
Handing over money with no strings attached is not helping our health system.
February 2, 2012
Ivey School report on Strengthening Health Systems through Innovation
Anne Snowdon and Jason Cohen examine lessons from health systems around the world and assess their applicability to Canada.
July 21, 2009
NY Times on Canada’s Health System
The New York Times online has a 4 part series on how Canada regulates its economy with an interesting post…
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