Canadian Medicare.

After Medicare: regionalization and Canadian health care reform.

In the immediate postwar era the primary object of health reform among the advanced industrial democracies was to expand, if not universalize, access to a broad spectrum of health services through sustained, high levels of government-mandated spending. The fiscal crises of the 1970s and 1980s ushered in a new generation of policies devoted to balancing the imperatives of guaranteeing access to ...

Rethinking Medicare: response from the Canadian Medical Association.

DUNCAN SINCLAIR AND HIS COLLEAGUES (HealthcarePapers Vol. 1 No.3) have provided thoughtful reviews of some potential approaches to sustaining publicly funded medicare in Canada. The collection begins with Sinclair’s five propositions, briefly: 1. Provide more funding – Sinclair thinks it would most likely come from private sources, and he is concerned about the size of the relative GDP share go...

Canadian political science and medicare: six decades of inquiry.

Based on an extensive sample of the literature, this critical review dissects the principal themes that have animated the Canadian political science profession on the topic of medicare. The review considers the coincidence of economic eras and how these are reflected in the methodological approaches to the study of medicare. As is to be expected, most of the scholarly activity coincides with th...

Lessons from Medicare+Choice for Medicare reform.

C urrent discussions of the future of Medicare include proposals to increase the enrollment of beneficiaries in private health insurance plans. These proposals would provide incentives for beneficiaries to join private plans, rely on more loosely structured health plans such as preferred provider organizations (PPOs), change the way health plans are paid, and in some cases create competition be...

Medicare uncertainties.