Canadian health consumers have increasingly relied on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to demand certain therapies and reasonably timely access to care. Organizing these cases into a 5-part typology, we examine how a rights-based discourse affects allocation of health care resources. First,...

The dialogue links a portrait of health reform politics in the US from the seventies to 2008 by Ted Marmor with a comparable, parallel essay by Antonia Maioni about Canada's struggles. The pairing is also unusual in having the North Americans comment on each other's portrayal. They do not...

Objective. To compare health care utilization between Canadian and U.S. residents. Data Sources. Nationally representative 2007 surveys from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) for the U.S. and the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) for Canada. Study Design. We use descriptive and...