Contributors’ Biographies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of Tables ix
5. Introduction: The Courts and Two-Tier Medicare 1
6. PART I THE CONTEXT AND CONTESTATIONS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN THE CANADIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
7. 1. Private Finance and Canadian Medicare: Learning from History 13
8. 2. Chaoulli to Cambie: Charter Challenges to the Regulation of Private Care 37
9. 3. Borders, Fences, and Crossings: Regulating Parallel Private Finance in Health Care 69
10. 4. Chaoulli v Quebec: Cause or Symptom of Quebec Health System Privatization? 93
11. 5. Experiences with Two-Tier Home Care in Canada: A Focus on Inequalities in Home Care Use by Income in Ontario 123
12. 6. Self-Regulation as a Means of Regulating Privately Financed Medicare: What Can We Learn from the Fertility Sector? 145
13. PART II IS CANADA ODD? LOOKING AT THE REGULATION OF PUBLIC/ PRIVATE MIX OF HEALTH CARE IN OTHER COUNTRIES
14. 7. The Politics of Market-Oriented Reforms: Lessons from the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Netherlands 183
15. 8. The Public-Private Mix in Health Care: Reflections on the Interplay between Social and Private Insurance in Germany 211
16. 9. The Public-Private Mix in France: A Case for Two-Tier Health Care? 237
17. 10. Embracing Private Finance and Private Provision: The Australian System 267
18. 11. Embracing and Disentangling from Private Finance: The Irish System 291
19. 12. Contracting Our Way Around Two-Tier Care? The Use of Physician Contracts to Limit Dual Practice 315
20. Conclusion: The Complex Dynamics of Canadian Medicare and the Constitution 335
21. Contributors’ Biographies 353
22. Acknowledgements 359
23. Index 361