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Subject:    The future of health care in Canada


Dear Colleagues

Seven different perspectives on the recent ruling by the Canadian Court on
access to private health insurance in Quebec. The headline message which
came out of this ruling was that if the public health care system did not
provide quality services in the province (because of undue delays in access
to services) then the private market should be allowed an opportunity to
provide an alternative. This is a highly simplistic statement on my part;
the ruling is complex and has been interpreted in many ways. This judgement
is being seized on by some free marketeers as evidence that public systems
do not work as well as the private sector - in my view a somewhat strange
conclusion to make but one which is attracting some attention. In any case
seven perspectives including that of Roy Romanow on what this may mean can
be found at

http://www.longwoods.com/opinions/index.html

Best wishes

David McDaid
LSE Health and Social Care

The Supreme Court Decision: Chaoulli v. Quebec.
1.    A National Perspective from The Hon. Roy Romanow. Download PDF
<1_ChaoulliCase.pdf>
2.    A Legal Perspective from Low, Wakulowsky and Moysa suggests
reallocating scarce medical resources Download PDF <2_ChaouilliCase.pdf>
3.    Steven Lewis weighs in with some suggestions for both sides of the
divide. Download PDF <3_ChaoulliCase.pdf>
4.    François Beland - Perspective Du Québec. [Français] Téléchargement
ici <4_ChaoulliCaseby.pdf>
4A.   Francois Beland takes the Quebec Perspective. [English] Download PDF
<4E_ChaoulliCaseby.pdf>
5.    Gregory P. Marchildon from Saskatchewan ponders the magna carta for
two-tier medicare. Download PDF <5_ChaoulliCase.pdf>
6.    Peter Carver from Alberta thinks we may be seeing the end of medicare
as we have known it. Download PDF <6_ChaouilliCase.pdf>
 7.   The patient's perspective: angry notes from a Canadian living in
 America. Download PDF <7_ChaouilliCase.pdf>
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