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.

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.

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

In all developed societies, the financing of health care is a collective process. Pools of funds, described bu White (1995) as "Shared saving", are assembled through more or less compulsory levies on the general population, within or outside the formal tax system. Thses funds are then been...

The impact of major social policy decisions on community health is rarely considered or analyzed. This aricle describes the association of major community and health use in relation to the distribution of monthly welfare payments.

Our system of Universal public insurance for health care is by a considerable magin Canada's most successful and popular puiblic program. Our system works, and compared to most other systems works well, while the American alternative does not.