Ontario's Experiment with Primary Care Reform

Communities and primary care reform.

Reducing health disparities through primary care reform: the New Zealand experiment.

New Zealand experiences significant health disparities related to both ethnicity and deprivation; the average life expectancy for Maori New Zealanders is 9 years less than for other New Zealanders. The government recently introduced a set of primary care reforms aimed at improving health and reducing disparities by reducing co-payments, moving from fee-for-service to capitation, promoting popul...

Public attitudes to primary care reform.

In contemplating this column on primary care reform, many things came to mind. First was an anecdote from a friend of mine who comes from a small town where people frequently greet each other with the salutation,“What do you know for sure?” The standard response is, “Pretty quiet.” I think that anecdote probably best sums up how the public generally responds to primary care reform at the presen...

Health care reform: a perspective from primary care.

The primary care physician and health care reform.

WHATEVER FORM IT TAKES, HEALTH CARE REform will increase the number of Americans covered by health insurance. But there is concern that the legislation will not bend the cost curve—that is, will not reduce the growth of health care costs so that it more closely resembles the growth of the US gross domestic product (GDP). Currently, health care consumes about 16% of the GDP; advocates of bending...