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.

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.

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.

"Medicare" has two meanings for Canadians: the entire range of health care services, or only those (mainly physicians and hospitals) mandated and governed by the Canada Health Act (CHA). This paper focuses on the narrower legal meaning of Medicare, as does the recent Alberta proposal to fund...

Call 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 somewhate, some of the more consistent claims have been that user fees are...

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...