Background- Canada’s public health insurance system fully covers medically necessary hospital and physician services, but does not cover community-based non-physician mental health provider services or prescription drugs. Almost 2/3 of Canadians have private supplemental insurance for extended...

In this report we consider the case for using population-needs based approach to the planning and allocation of health-care resources in Ontario. In section 1 the needs-based approach is contrasted with systems of allocation used currently in Ontario. These existing systems tend to allocate...