Extending Canadian Health Insurance : : Options for Pharmacare and Denticare /

Extending Canadian Health Insurance : : Options for Pharmacare and Denticare / / R.G. Evans, M.F. Williamson.

This study explores the policy options a provincial government might consider in extending health care coverage to the purchase of prescription drugs and dental care. It examines the major public policy objectives involved, such as spreading risk, redistributing wealth, and reducing the barriers to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
VerfasserIn:
Evans, R.G.,
Williamson, M.F. ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1978
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Public intervention: objectives and criteria
  • 2. Pharmacare and its alternatives: insurance options
  • 3. Pharmacare and its alternatives: reshaping the delivery system
  • 4. Denticare and its alternatives: insurance options
  • 5. Denticare and its alternatives: reshaping the delivery system
  • 6. Under-use of auxiliaries in private practice: theoretical issues
  • 7. Summary and conclusions
  • Appendix A. Risk-Spreading And The Gains Or Losses From Insurance: A Graphical Analysis
  • Appendix B. Estimated cost of a deductible pharmacare program compared with Manitoba (1975) experience
  • Appendix C. Retail pharmacy: some current price data
  • Appendix D. Dental care utilization and dental health
  • Bibliography

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