Post-Romanow, post-Kirby; has anything changed?

Post Romanow, post Kirby. What's next?

On November 28, the Honourable Roy Romanow tabled his long-awaited report, “The Future of Health Care in Canada,” in the House of Commons. Written following 18 months of serious deliberation, the report includes a range of recommendations aimed at sustaining Canada’s health care system under the principles of the Canada Health Act. While many of the recommendations are consistent with submissio...

The Canada Health Act Does Not Apply to Prescription Drugs

Abstract There are strong arguments that national catastrophic drug insurance should be established in Canada with assistance from the federal government. The author of this paper projects the long-run program costs for two proposals for such a program: that of the Kirby Committee and that of the Romanow Commission. He concludes that both the annual program costs to the federal government and t...

Stop voicing and F0 perturbations: Evidence from French and Italian

We report new experimental evidence on consonantinduced F0 perturbations in two languages with prevoiced stops, French and Italian. A positive correlation between duration of voicing lead and F0 at the onset of post-release voicing is observed, consistent with the predictions of an automatic or biomechanical account of the source of this effect. While the findings do not strictly rule out a rol...

Examining the Public/Private Divide in Healthcare: Demystifying the Debate

In this paper, we review recent developments in the debate over the role of the private sector in healthcare in Canada, with a particular focus on the two major federal reports that were released in the autumn of 2002, the final report of the Senate Committee on Social Affairs (the Kirby report) and the Romanow Commission report. It is possible to see these reports as representing two polarized...

Rural and remote community health care in Canada: beyond the Kirby Panel Report, the Romanow Report and the federal budget of 2003.