Reforming Health Care or Reforming Health?

Reforming Health Care

Such an alarming statement has not been challenged---in fact it is even more widely accepted today. Indeed, throughout wealthy countries (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) we hear the same kind of systemic problems: • many doctors are disgruntled, overworked and professionally unsatisfied; • nurses are restless and in short supply; • popular demands for more health spending...

Reforming health care in seven European nations.

Reforming health care in Canada: current issues.

This paper examines the current health care reform issues in Canada. The provincial health insurance plans of the 1960s and 1970s had the untoward effects of limiting the federal government's clout for cost control and of promoting a system centered on inpatient and medical care. Recently, several provincial commissions reported that the current governance structures and management processes ar...

Reforming health care: the paradoxes of cost.

Reforming Australian health care: the first installment.

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X ?? May 2010 192 X 1-1 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au Viewpoint operate public hospitals under 5-yearly cost sharing ag the federal government. The initial shares were 50%– Australian Government portion had steadily fallen to a 2007–08, and will be only slightly higher by the end agreements in 2012–13. The policy report corre...