Limits to Care: Reforming Canada's Health System in an Age of Restraint

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C.D. Howe Institute, 1994 - Health care reform - 440 pages
From 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

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