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November 19, 2007
Dear friends and members,
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 and Promise. The book
is based on contributions to a remarkable conference ? S.O.S. Medicare 2:
Looking Forward. The conference, held at the University of Regina, was
inspired by Tommy Douglas? Vision for the Future of Medicare and brought
together an unprecedented cast of health care icons: Shirley Douglas,
Monique Begin, and Tom Kent, to Allan Blakeney, Roy Romanow, Stephen Lewis
and Robert McMurtry, MD. Contributors also include leading health policy
experts, economists, doctors, nurses and people representing the whole
spectrum health care providers.
For anyone who cares about the future of Medicare, this book offers a
unique source of reliable, independent information and analysis. At a time
when ideologues and advocates of privatization capture much of the
attention of the media and politicians, this collection is an invaluable
source of information and ideas.
Copies of Medicare: Facts, Myths, Problems and Promise are available from
the CCPA for $29.95 each (plus GST, shipping and handling). Click here to
order your copy.
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Preface: Bruce Campbell and Greg Marchildon 9
Part I: Tommy Douglas? Vision and the Future of Medicare
1. SOS Medicare: A (Cautionary) Tale of Two Conferences 19
Shirley Douglas
2. The Struggle ? at Home and in the World ? for Health Care as a Human
Right 25
Stephen Lewis
3. The Douglas Legacy and the Future of Medicare 36
Greg Marchildon
4. Fulfilling the Douglas/Lloyd Vision 42
Allan E. Blakeney
5. The Canada Health Act: Lessons for Today and Tomorrow 46
Monique Bégin
6. Healthy Children First 50
Tom Kent
7. The Collective Action Problem 56
Robert McMurtry
Part II:The International Context
8. Styles of Rationing Health Care: The United States vs. Canada 65
Uwe E. Reinhardt
9. How to Protect a Public Health Care System 82
Alan Maynard
10. The Truth about the Drug Companies 87
Marcia Angell
11. Market-based Health Care in the United States and
its Lessons for Canada 91
Arnold S. Relman
12. Protecting Medicare from Foreign Commercial Interests 99
Scott Sinclair
13. Canada?s Single-payer Medicare: Role Model for Taiwan 106
May Tsung-Mei Cheng
Part III: Privatization and the Principles of Medicare
14. Economic Myths and Political Realities: The Inequality Agenda and the
Sustainability of Medicare 113
Robert G. Evans
15. Chaoulli?s Legacy for the Future of Canadian Health Care Policy 156
Colleen Flood
16. Bill 33:The Fallout from the Chaoulli Decision in Quebec and its
Impact on Equity in Healthcare 192
Marie-Claude Prémont
17. P3 Hospitals and the Principles of Medicare 197
Steven Shrybman
18. Changing the Landscape in the Health Care Affordability Debate 212
Diana Gibson
Part IV: Health Care Reforms: Pharmacare, Home, Community
and Primary Care
19. Completing the Vision: Achieving the Second Stage of Medicare 221
Michael Rachlis
20. Health Human Resources ? A Nurse?s Perspective 243
Linda Silas
21. The Electronic Health Record:The Neglected Key to Saving Medicare 250
Steven Lewis
22. Health Care Reform As If Women Mattered 257
Pat Armstrong
23. Pharmacare: Equity, Efficiency, and Effectiveness ? We?ve Waited Long
Enough. 262
Joel Lexchin
24. Federal Pharmacare: Prescription for an Ailing Federation? 268
Greg Marchildon
25. A Strategy for Mental Health 285
Patricia J. Martens
26. Home and Community Care in Canada:The Unfinished Policy 291
Judith Shamian
27. Completing the Vision: Prevention and Community Health Centres 297
France Gélinas
Part V: Inequality and Social Determinants of Health
28. It?s About Equity and Going Upstream: Health For All 305
Monique Bégin
29. Poverty and Health: Implications for Health and Quality of Life 319
Dennis Raphael
30. Growing Inequality, Basic Needs, and Health 331
Armine Yalnizyan
31. People Are Dying for a Home 337
Cathy Crowe
32. Miyo-Mâhcihowin: Self-determination, Social Determinants, and
Indigenous Health 342
Willie Ermine and Eber Hampton
Part VI: Getting There from Here
33. Canada?s Shared Destiny and the Future of Medicare 351
Roy Romanow
34. Medicare as Mainstream Agenda: The Second Stage 367
Danielle Martin
35. The Wrong Kind of Rights:The Charter Threat to Medicare 371
Andrew Petter
36. It?s All About People 377
Elizabeth Ballerman
37. The Continental Deep Integration Threat 382
Maude Barlow
38. Talking Solutions 388
Marcy Cohen
39. A Political Agenda for Building Medicare?s Next Stage 393
Doris Grinspun
Notes 404
Contributors 00
Index 00
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