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Medical Medicaid & Medicare

Just Medicare

What's In, What's Out, How We Decide

edited by Colleen M.,. Flood

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2006
Category
Medicaid & Medicare
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802080028
    Publish Date
    Apr 2006
    List Price
    $102.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442676459
    Publish Date
    Mar 2006
    List Price
    $99.00

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The most important issue facing Canadian health care today is access to services. But who decides what services will be publicly funded, and how? The essays in Just Medicare explore the diverse means by which law influences what should and should not be covered by publicly-funded Medicare.

Edited by Colleen M. Flood, the collection demonstrates three analytical approaches to the question of what services attract public funding. The first describes the existing processes for determining what is in and out of the publicly-funded sector and what is left to the private sector. The second approach suggests the principles that should guide decision-making and then investigates existing decision-making processes to see whether or not such principles are applied. The third analytical approach focuses on the processes of determining what services are publicly funded and, in particular, the right to review or appeal those decisions.

The role of law is usually underestimated by those in health policy. Just Medicare illustrates that legal scholars can also contribute to the issue of how to allocate scarce health resources by determining what constitutes fair processes for decision-making, and by challenging unjust processes. In re-evaluating the potential of the law, this collection adds an important new dimension to the issue of health care in Canada.

About the author

Colleen M. Flood is a Canada Research Chair in health law and policy in the Faculty of Law and the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.

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