CANADIAN HEALTH REFORM: A GENDER ANALYSIS

Evelyn Forget (), Raisa Deber, Leslie Roos and Randy Walld

Feminist Economics, 2005, vol. 11, issue 1, 123-141

Abstract: We analyze the gender impact of the current Canadian system of first-dollar health insurance by examining the use of physicians' services and acute-care hospital services in the Canadian province of Manitoba from April 1, 1997, to March 31, 1999. First, we describe the use by age and sex of healthcare resources offered with universal access at no cost to individuals. Second, we argue that women have a particular interest in maintaining single-payer insurance, because women are moderately high users of healthcare resources, while men tend to be low or catastrophic users who would be shielded from the full force of market-oriented reforms. Third, we attempt to refocus the debate about the gender implications of market-oriented health reform by noting that medicare transfers resources to women of reproductive age from the rest of society, a form of social wage paid as in-kind compensation to women for nonpaid reproductive labor.

Keywords: Health and administration data; women's health; healthcare costs; population health; single-payer; social wage; first-dollar coverage; Canada (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1080/1354570042000332579

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