CDM Bulletins
Activity-based funding in Canadian Hospitals and other Surgical Facilities - More
The Sustainability of Medicare
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International Health Systems
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Apr 16, 2009, - For-profit won't heal health care - The Star - By Michael Rachlis - More
April 10, 2009, Counterpoint: No time to give up on health care principles - The National Post - By Linda Silas, Kaaren Neufeld, and Dr. Danielle Martin - More
March 17, 2009, The real health care lessons from Europe - "if we truly want to bring the lessons of European health care to Canada, we should realize that privatization has never been the European prescription." - The Ottawa Citizen - By Irfan Dhalla and Chris Mackie - More
February 13, 2009, Private insurance makes health care worse - Australian experience proves the idea would lead only to disaster - The Victoria Times Colonist - By Randall White - More
February 4, 2009, Standing up for our public healthcare system - The McGill Reporter - By Adam HofmannMore
January 17, 2009, CDM Board member, Simon Turcotte, speaks about public health care to Residents in Québec; More
Innovations in Medicare
Across Canada, there are dozens of innovative projects that are improving access, quality and cost-effectiveness while maintaining or even improving equity.Read about successful Medicare innovations
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How the U.S. measures up to Canada's health care system
In this extended interview, Uwe Reinhardt, a leading adviser on health care economics and professor of political economy at Princeton University, compares the Canadian and American health care systems. More
Understanding Health Care "Privatization"
To understand privatization we need to distinguish between who pays for health care and who delivers health care. The delivery side is confusing because people often refer to "public" when they mean "private, not-for-profit."More
On Health Care Financing
"The common argument that countries 'cannot afford' to meet growing needs for health care through tax financing, and must therefore draw in other sources of finance, makes no economic sense.More
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