In response to the need for an objective and value-free document, this volume was completed following a conference on the Canadian health care system, held April 2, 1993, on the campus of the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center in Fort Worth. The purpose of the conference was to examine the Canadian health care system to determine if there were lessons that the U.S. could learn from the Canadian experience as the United States began to undertake its first serious attempt at health care reform since 1965. The conference participants included a diverse group of health care professionals, health care policy-makers and behavioral and social scientists from the U.S. and Canada.
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| 1 | Canadian Lessons in Health Care Reform: Reading Between the Lines | 7 |
| 2 | Financing Health Care in Canada | 19 |
| 3 | The Long-Term Care of Frail Elderly People | 35 |
| 4 | Use of Health Care Services by Older Adults in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada | 55 |
| 5 | Health Care and Social Service Utilization and Perceived Need among the Disabled Elderly in Canada | 84 |
| 6 | Older Canadians with Developmental Disabilities: Access to Health Care and Social Services | 107 |
| 2 | Critical Perspectives | 137 |
| 7 | The Canadian Experience with Public Health Insurance | 143 |
| 8 | Aging and Public Policy for Canada in the Year 2000 | 155 |
| 9 | The Canadian Health System: Lessons from Alberta for the United States | 173 |
| 10 | Health Care Reform in the United States: The Canadian System: What Should We Adopt? | 193 |
| 11 | The Rocky Trail of Acceptance of Medicare By Canadian Physicians: A Short History | 207 |
| 3 | U.S. Needs and Directions | 213 |
| 12 | The A, B, Cs of Medical Care: America, Britain, and Canada | 217 |
| 13 | International Convergence in Health Care Systems: Lessons from and for the USA | 236 |
| 14 | Feudal vs. Futile Medicine: Can We Have Cost Containment Without Prevention? | 247 |
| 15 | Health Assurance Development - A Unique Partnership | 256 |
| 16 | Lessons for Citizen Policymakers in Canada and the United States on Health Care Policy | 269 |
| 17 | The Canadian Health Care System: Implications for Nursing in the United States | 280 |
| About the Authors | 289 |
Overview
In response to the need for an objective and value-free document, this volume was completed following a conference on the Canadian health care system, held April 2, 1993, on the campus of the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center in Fort Worth. The purpose of the conference was to examine the Canadian health care system to determine if there were lessons that the U.S. could learn from the Canadian experience as the United States began to undertake its first serious attempt at health care reform since ...