Reforming Canadian Medicare: Can an Icon be Redesigned?

Ake Blomqvist

Chapter 5 in Canadian Policy Debates and Case Studies in Honour of David Laidler, 2010, pp 122-155 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the first decade of the twenty-first century, all of the world’s advanced economies can reasonably be classified as ‘welfare states’, in that all of them have tax and transfer programmes that redistribute income from the rich to the poor to a significant extent, and provide economic safety nets for those who, for one reason or another, are not able to reach acceptable standards of well-being without assistance. Differences across countries in terms of the ambition level of their welfare state programmes continue to exist of course, but they have over time become less pronounced.

Keywords: National Health Service; Private Insurance; Market Failure; Public Plan; Canadian Health Care System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-27430-3_5

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230274303

DOI: 10.1057/9780230274303_5

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().