• The fraught history of cost-sharing illustrates why the federal and provincial and territorial
governments have divergent views on a fair deal to support Canada's health care systems.• …

Roughly 30 percent of all Canadian healthcare is privately paid for, about the same
proportion as the average for the 34 industrialized countries that are members of the …

PROLOGUE: Canada's health insurance system, the nation's most popular publicly financed
service, has for years demonstrated a capacity to deliver universal, high-quality medical care …

Canadian decades after moving to the United States, but steadfastly rejected the idea that
Canada's health care system was suitable for transplantation to the United States, 1 even as …

Throughout the history of Canadian Medicare, there have been those who have opposed
the universal, pub-licly funded system and advocated for greater private sector involvement …

Les dements principaux des arrangements fiscaux federaux-provinciaux concernant les
soins de sante sont restes essentiellement inchanges au cours du dernier quart de siecle …

Canada's government-funded health care system is under fiscal attack. De-spite the
mandate of the Canada Health Act, which was meant to assure universality …

A prominent feature of Canada's health care system is the absence of any charge for
publicly insured health care services at the point of consumption. This feature is mandated …

Executive Summary The Conference Board of Canada estimates that public health
expenditures are projected to rise from 31.1 percent in 2000 to 42.0 percent by 2020 as a …

Commentary Commentaire spending for hospitals and doctors, which amounted to about
two-thirds of current provincial spending on health care. A rough calculation suggests that …