Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care : : Canada's Provinces in International Perspective / / ed. by Livio Di Matteo, Gregory P. Marchildon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Allin, Sara,; Anderson, Gerard,; Busby, Colin,; Béland, François,; Cheng, Tsung-Mei,; Daw, Jamie R.,; Deber, Raisa,; Di Matteo, Livio,; Duckett, Stephen,; Emery, J. C. Herb,; Evans, Robert G.,; Fierlbeck, Katherine,; Forest, Pierre-Gerlier,; Galand, Claude,; Hurley, Jeremiah,; Leonard, Phil,; Li, Jinhu,; Magnussen, Jon,; Marchildon, Gregory P.,; Maynard, Alan,; Mcgrail, Kimberlyn M.,; Morgan, Steven G.,; Reinhardt, Uwe,; Richards, John,; Ruggeri, Joe,; Sweetman, Arthur,; Thomson, Paige A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Di Matteo, Livio,; Marchildon, Gregory P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (479 p.)

Through Canadian and international perspectives, Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care explores the management of growing health costs in an extraordinarily complex arena. The book moves beyond previous debates, agreeing that while efficiencies and better value for money may yet be found, more funda...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction and Overview
• Part I: General Considerations on Bending the Cost Curve
• 1 Why We Should Bend the Cost Curve and How We Could Do It
• 2 Financial Incentives and Pay-for-Performance
• 3 Tax Burdens and Aging
• Part II: Pan-Canadian Cost Drivers and Political Considerations
• 4 Common Provincial Determinants and Cost Drivers
• 5 Pharmaceuticals
• 6 Paying the Health Workforce
• 7 Three Federal Approaches to Cost Containment in Health Care
• 8 The Federal Role in Health Care
• Part III: Provincial Experiences in Canada
• 9 Ontario: Changing Policies, Changing Categories
• 10 Québec: Sustainability—Perception and Reality
• 11 British Columbia: Cost Control in the Country of the Red Queen
• 12 Alberta: Health Spending in the Land of Plenty
• 13 Saskatchewan and Manitoba: Managing Down
• 14 Atlantic Canada: The Impact of Aging on the Cost Curve
• Part IV: What Can Canada Learn from the International Evidence?
• 15 The United States
• 16 Australia
• 17 England
• 18 Nordic Countries
• 19 Taiwan and Other Advanced Asian Economies
• Index