Health, health care system, pharmacare
OTTAWA — To mark National Medicare Week, November 18-24, the Canadian Health Coalition and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives are launching a new book entitled Medicare: Facts, Myths, Problems, Promise. The book is based on contributions to a remarkable conference – S.O.S.
THIS BOOK IS SOLD OUT
This book is based on contributions to a remarkable conference—SOS Medicare 2: Looking Forward, Building on Tommy Douglas’ Vision of Medicare—organized by the Canadian Health Coalition, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina
Montréal – Médecins canadiens pour le régime public (MCRP) en collaboration avec le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA) rendent publique aujourd’hui la version française de Why Wait ? Public Solutions to Cure Waitlists, Pourquoi attendre ? Des solutions publiques aux listes d’attente en chirurgie.
MONTREAL — Innovations in health care in Quebec and across Canada prove wait lists can be shortened, productivity increased, costs controlled and health improved within Canada’s public health system, a symposium on public solutions to improve access to health care will hear today.
OTTAWA—There is little to suggest that health care costs will spiral out of control as Canada’s population ages, says a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
The study, by CCPA-BC Senior Economist Marc Lee, finds that population aging is only a small contributor to rising health care costs, and that the system can be maintained and even enhanced without breaking the bank.
“There is no demographic time bomb waiting to go off in our health care system,” says Lee.
The study finds that:
This is the 40th anniversary of the establishment of national public health care in Canada, with the passage of the Canada Health Act in 1967. But Medicare was actually born five years earlier, in 1962, when the first public health care program was introduced in Saskatchewan, the legacy of that province’s first and most illustrious premier, Tommy Douglas. In this column I pay tribute to Tommy and the other pioneers of Medicare, whose outstanding achievement should never be forgotten.
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