Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Tables and Figures v
4. Foreword vii
5. Preface ix
6. Glossary xi
7. Abbreviations xv
8. Why Is It So Hard to Reform Health-Care Policy in Canada? 1
9. Studying Health-Care Reforms 21
10. Health Reform in Alberta: Fiscal Crisis, Political Leadership, and Institutional Change within a Single-Party Democratic State 35
11. Saskatchewan’s Health-Care Policy Reform in the Romanow Era: From Restraint to Restructuring 65
12. Health-Care Reform in Ontario: More Tortoise Than Hare? 89
13. Quebec Reforms from Rochon to Couillard: The Long and Winding Road 113
14. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Difficulty of Reforming Health Care in Newfoundland and Labrador 147
15. Canadian Health-Care Reform: What Kind? How Much? Why? 171
16. Patterns in the Factors That Explain Health-Care Policy Reform 219
17. Verifying the Reliability of Research Results 253
18. Health-Care Reform: Where Things Stand 283
19. Prospects for Health-Care Policy Reform 307
20. Analyzing the Nature and Extent of Health-Care Policy Reforms, 1990–2003 331
21. Independent Variables Referred to in 30 Case Studies That Best Help to Explain Nature and Extent of Reforms 353
22. Some Observations on the Historical Development of Medicare 371
23. References 375
24. Contributors 397