Research Catalog

Title

Access to care, access to justice : the legal debate over private health insurance in Canada / edited by Colleen M. Flood, Kent Roach, and Lorne Sossin.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Access to Care, Access to Justice Conference (2005 : Toronto, Ont.)
• Flood, Colleen M.
• Roach, Kent
• Sossin, Lorne, 1964-

Description

xxxviii, 611 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Canada
• Health Policy
• Health Policy > legislation & jurisprudence
• Health Services Accessibility > economics
• Health insurance > Law and legislation > Canada
• Insurance, Health > legislation & jurisprudence
• Insurance, Health > legislation & jurisprudence > Canada > Congresses
• Judicial Role
• Medical care > Law and legislation > Canada
• Medical policy > Canada
• National Health Programs > legislation & jurisprudence
• National Health Programs > legislation & jurisprudence
• National health insurance > Law and legislation > Canada
• Private Sector > legislation & jurisprudence

Genre/Form

Congress

Note

• Papers from a conference held at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto on Sept. 16, 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Chaoulli : the political versus the legal life of a judicial decision / Peter H. Russell -- The Chaoulli decision : less than meets the eye -- or more? / Bernard M. Dickens -- Chaoulli and Quebec's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms : the ambiguities of distinctness / Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens and Charles-Maxime Panaccio -- Charter perspectives on Chaoulli : the body and the body politic / Lorraine Weinrib -- Worse than Lochner? / Sujit Choudhry -- Condition critical : the constitution and health care / Allan Hutchinson -- Wealthcare : the politics of the Charter re-visited / Andrew Petter -- Déjà vu all over again : Chaoulli and the limits of judicial policy-making / Christopher P. Manfredi -- Towards a two-tier constitution? : the poverty of health rights / Lorne Sossin -- The courts and Medicare : too much or too little judicial activism? / Kent Roach -- Implications of Chaoulli for fact finding in constitutional cases / Hamish Stewart --^
• Experts and evidence : new challenges in knowledge translation / Morris Barer -- Different interpretations of "evidence" and implications for the Canadian healthcare system / Charles J. Wright -- How to defend a public health care system : lessons from abroad / Alan Maynard -- Blending private and social health insurance in the Netherlands : challenges posed by the EU / André den Exter -- The role of private health insurance in social health insurance countries : implications for Canada / Stefan Greß -- Finding health policy "arbitrary" : the evidence on waiting, dying, and two-tier systems / Colleen M. Flood, Mark Stabile and Sasha Kontic -- The CMA's Chaoulli motion and the myth of promoting fair access to health care / Trudo Lemmens and Tom Archibald -- Preserving privilege, promoting profit : the payoffs from private health insurance / Robert G. Evans --^
• Opening Medicare to our neighbours or closing the door on a public system? : international trade law implications of Chaoulli v. Quebec / Tracey Epps and David Schneiderman -- Promises, promise : setting boundaries between public and private / Claude E. Forget -- Politics and paradoxes : Chaoulli and the Alberta reaction / Timothy Caulfield and Nola Ries -- Private insurance for Medicare : policy history and trajectory in the four western provinces / Greg Marchildon -- A just measure of patience : managing access to cancer services after Chaoulli / T. Sullivan ... [et al.] -- Section 7 "safety valves" : appealing wait times within a one-tier system / Caroline Pitfield and Colleen M. Flood -- Arbitrariness, Randomness and the Principles of fundamental justice / Stanley Hartt -- In search of a mandate? / Roy Romanow.

ISBN

0802094201

LCCN

9780802094209

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library