Limits to Care: Reforming Canada's Health System in an Age of RestraintFrom the back cover: In this volume...some of North America's foremost health care experts offer commentary and recommendations on a wide range of topics, from spending trends to provincial initiatives, from health care reform in the United States and Europe to more radical options, and on to specific issues that will present severe challenges for health policymakers in the future - technology evaluation and dissemination, long-term care for the elderly, and the rapidly growing pharmaceutical component. The volume closes with a provocative scenario for the process of Canadian health care reform over the next few years, and a proposal as to how Ottawa and the porivinces should divide responsibility for health policy. |
Contents
Economic Issues | 3 |
A Review of Provincial Initiatives | 91 |
The Prospects for US Health Care Reform | 125 |
Health Care Reform in the Netherlands | 167 |
Providers Perceptions Geographic Variation and | 269 |
Technology Assessment | 295 |
Community and LongTerm Health Care in Canada | 327 |
Prices Patents and RD Location in | 363 |
Themes | 399 |
The Contributors | 433 |