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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