- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: ECW Press; 1 edition (April 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1550225057
- ISBN-13: 978-1550225051
- Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.4 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
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- #54 in Books > Science > Medicine > Specialties > Pathology > Forensic Medicine
- #54 in Books > Professional & Technical > Medical > Administration & Medicine Economics > Health Policy
- #54 in Books > Medicine > Administration & Policy > Health Policy
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Donner Prize-winning author Dr. David Gratzer (Code Blue) edits and introduces this collection of twelve essays on health care reform in Canada, advocating an open-minded approach to such concepts as privatization, two-tier health care, and user fees. Gratzer has assembled a stellar list of authors who invite Canadians to question their confidence in government-managed public health. Contributors include Order of Canada member and University of Toronto professor Michael Bliss, who argues that our current problems are the result of increasingly aggressive government measures to control patients and health-care providers. Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente offers vignettes that address the day-to-day problems of health care: queue jumping, excessive waits, provider burnout, aging equipment, and the politicization of health administration. And, Vancouver-based health analyst Cynthia Ramsey places Canada’s health care system in an international context. Her findings are unsettling.
Other contributors include McGill economist and National Post contributor William Watson, former Quebec Medical Association president Dr. Edwin Coffey, former Ontario Medical Association president Dr. William Orovan, and Urban Futures Institute executive Director David Baxter.
All Canadians concerned about the state of health care in Canada should read this informative and intelligent collection.
Other contributors include McGill economist and National Post contributor William Watson, former Quebec Medical Association president Dr. Edwin Coffey, former Ontario Medical Association president Dr. William Orovan, and Urban Futures Institute executive Director David Baxter.
All Canadians concerned about the state of health care in Canada should read this informative and intelligent collection.
About the Author
Dr. David Gratzer works at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. His articles on health care have been published in more than a dozen newspapers and magazines including the National Post, the Toronto Star, and the Ottawa Citizen.
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