The AIMS commentary series on Swedish Health Care in Transition
Johan Hjertqvist explores the rapid transition in the style and format of health care being experienced in the Stockholm metropolitan area.
By Johan Hjertqvist| 2016-04-05T12:26:26+00:00 December 3rd, 2001|Op-ed|
Johan Hjertqvist explores the rapid transition in the style and format of health care being experienced in the Stockholm metropolitan area.
By Brian Lee Crowley| 2016-04-05T12:27:34+00:00 November 28th, 2001|Op-ed|
At a time in 2001 when the Canadian dollar sat at 63 cents, Brian Lee Crowley's gave this commentary on CBC Radio. He argues devaluation often looks like a good deal in the short run, but it almost always masks a declining standard of living. Bitter experience from around the world teaches that you cannot devalue your way to prosperity.
By Brian Lee Crowley| 2016-04-05T12:27:44+00:00 November 2nd, 2001|Op-ed|
The Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association invited AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley to speak at their Annual Convention recently to speak about the Institute's concept of Atlantica and the management of the Canada-US border.
By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 October 30th, 2001|Op-ed|
The Board and staff of AIMS were saddened to learn of the recent death of one of the members of the Institute's Board of Directors, John (Jack) C. Hartery, recently retired President and General Manager of Stora Enso Port Hawkesbury Limited.
By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 October 29th, 2001|Op-ed|
The Board and staff of AIMS were saddened to learn of the recent death of one of the members of the Institute’s Board of Research Advisors and AIMS author, E.G. West, Professor Emeritus in the Economics Department, Carleton University.
By Peter Holle| 2016-04-05T12:32:39+00:00 October 26th, 2001|Op-ed|
James Buchanan was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in economics for his work on the public choice theory of economics. As his early writings were highly influential in the design of equalization programmes such as Canada’s, Buchanan is known as one of the “fathers of equalization”. His more recent work has highlighted the possibility that equalization programmes can be captured and destroyed by politics and bad design. He spoke at a conference on equalization co-sponsored by the Montreal Economic Institute, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Montreal on October 25th, 2001. Following this conference he sat down for an interview to discuss his changed perspectives on equalization.
By James Buchanan| 2016-04-05T12:36:21+00:00 October 25th, 2001|Op-ed|
Nobel laureate James Buchanan took this opportunity to revisit his arguments of 50 years before. He said that he didn’t take enough account of how political interference with the operations of such programmes can outweigh the good intentions behind them.
By Ken Boessenkool| 2016-04-05T12:30:37+00:00 October 24th, 2001|Op-ed|
AIMS author addresses Senate on equalization On 24 October 2001, Kenneth J. Boessenkool author of the AIMS report, “Taking of the Shackles: Equalization and the Development of Nonrenewable Resources in Atlantic Canada”, delivered a presentation to the Senate National Finance Committee. In it he outlined ten reasons to remove nonrenewable resources from Equalization. In summary, he argued that such a change would mean little to the federal government’s bottom line; it would continue to protect the federal balance sheet from the vagaries of the price of nonrenewable resources, particularly oil and gas; and it means a substantial simplification of the program - an intergovernmental hat trick not often seen in the arcane world of Canada’s intergovernmental relations.
By Brian Lee Crowley and David Zitner| 2016-04-05T12:34:57+00:00 October 22nd, 2001|Op-ed|
Dr. David Zitner, AIMS Fellow in Health Care Policy, and Brian Lee Crowley, AIMS President, have made a submission to the Commission on the Future of Health Care chaired by the Honourable Roy Romanow. The submission outlines the conflict of interest arising from government acting as health services insurer, as health care provider and as evaluator of health care delivery and suggests that these functions need to be separated. The authors also recommend that regulators require health organisations to collect and publicise valid and reliable information linking health outcomes to their activities, and also provide reliable information about access to care. They close with a discussion of the need to assess proposals to change health care by tying them to a testable estimate of how the new structures and processes will influence access to care or patient and/or population health.
By Brian Lee Crowley| 2016-04-05T12:39:01+00:00 October 15th, 2001|Op-ed|
In a thought provoking article in Atlantic Progress, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley challenges the preconception that deregulation in the electricity industry seems to have created nothing but grief for those who have tried it, and the benefits seem elusive. The old local monopolies that serve captive provincial markets have brought stability of supply and reasonable reliability of service. For Crowley, safety does not lie in resisting the changes that are sweeping the electricity industry, but in steady deliberate movement toward deregulation, in order to capture the technological, economic and industrial benefits that it offers. Reform of the electricity market is an idea whose time has come, and the Maritimes, like the rest of the country, have a great deal to gain from it. Publication: Atlantic Progress, October, 2001