Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future? / edited by Colleen M. Flood and Bryan Thomas.

• TeilnehmendeR: Thomas, Bryan, 1973-; Flood, Colleen M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2020; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Law, technology, and media.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 pages.)

Canadians are deeply worried about wait times for health care. Entrepreneurial doctors and private clinics are bringing Charter challenges to existing laws restrictive of a two-tier system. They argue that Canada is an outlier among developed countries in limiting options to jump the queue. This book explores whether a two-tier model is a solution. In Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?, leading researchers explore the public and private mix in Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and Ireland. They explain the history and complexity of interactions between public and private funding of health care and the many regulations and policies found in different countries used to both inhibit and sometimes to encourage two-tier care, such as tax breaks. This edited collection provides critical evidence on the different approaches to regulating two-tier care across different countries and what could work in Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction : the courts and two-tier medicare / Colleen M. Flood and Bryan Thomas -- part I. The context and contestations of public and private in the Canadian health care system. Private finance and Canadian Medicare : learning from history / Gregory P. Marchildon -- Chaoulli to Cambie : Charter challenges to the regulation of private care / Martha Jackman -- Borders, fences, and crossings : regulating parallel private finance in health care / Jeremiah Hurley -- Chaoulli v Quebec : cause or symptom of quebec health system privatization? / Amelie Quesnel-Vallee, Rachel McKay, and Noushon Farmanara -- Experiences with two-tier home care in Canada : a focus on inequalities in home care use by income in Ontario / Sara Allin, David Rudoler, Danielle Dawson, and Jonathan Mullen -- Self-regulation as a means of regulating privately financed Medicare : what can we learn from the fertility sector? / Vanessa Gruben -- part II. Is Canada odd? Looking at the regulation of public/private mix of health care in other countries. The politics of market-oriented reforms: lessons from the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Netherlands / Carolyn Hughes Tuohy -- The public-private mix in health care : reflections on the interplay between social and private insurance in Germany / Achim Schmid and Lorraine Frisina Doetter -- The public-private mix in France : a case for two-tier health care? / Zeynep Or and Aurelie Pierre -- Embracing private finance and private provision : the Australian system / Fiona McDonald and Stephen Duckett -- Embracing and disentangling from private finance : the Irish system / Stephen Thomas, Sarah Barry, Bridget Johnston, Rikke Siersbaek, and Sara Burke -- Contracting our way around two-tier care? the use of physician contracts to limit dual practice / Bryan Thomas -- Conclusion : the complex dynamics of Canadian Medicare and the Constitution / Colleen M. Flood and Bryan Thomas.