A description of recent "Reform" in the Canadian health care system could be made very short. There has not been meet any reform. The authors presents a document presenting the Canadian Health care system and its funding sources.

Ken Bassett's problem: "Why would intelligent and competent professionals routinely behave in ways that they know to be illogical and scientifically unsound?". This paper thus complements that by Uwe Reinhardt.

There is a growing concer over the supply of physicians to meet current and future Canadian requirements.Increased outflow id distributed to the retirement of the baby-boom generation and the ongoing migration of Canadian physicians to the United States, Inflow comes through a variaty of routes...

Overall changes in health care use were small, which suggests that the repercussions of the decline in acute care services for elderly people have been minimal. The higher age-adjusted death rates in the later cohort in full-time care suggests that long-term stays are becoming reserved for...

Canada's system of universal public insurance for health care is by considerable margin the nation's most successful and popular public program.

This study uses data from 1994 National Population Health Survey and applies the methods developed by Wagstaff and van Doorslaer (1994) to measure the degree of income related health inequality in Canada by means of concentration indices.

The Canadian and American health care systems differ in three fundamental structure respects: entitlement, management, and environment. Fundamental philosophical differences in the two societies have their outcomes in the different approaches to, and results of , extending entitlement to...

The most sophesticated and effective health care in the world cannot produce results as good as simply remaining health in the first place.

Calls for user fees in Canadian health care go back as far as the debate leading up to the establishment of Canada's national hospital insurance program in the late 1950s. Although the rationales have shifted around somewhat, some of the more consistent claims have been that user fees are...

In this paper we document the history of the user charges in the Canadian health care system.