AIMS' work in health care, Senate reform and foreign policy were all highlighted in the August 24th edition of Canada Watch, an electronic newsletter distributed throughout the US by the Canadian Embassy in Washington.
The first Background Paper produced by the Canadian Health Care Consensus Group (CHCCG) indicates such disagreements could be dissipated rather quickly, if people just defined what it is they mean by the two terms. "Going Public on What is Private" shows that people confuse the payment for the service with the supply of the service when entering the public versus private fray.
And why does it matter?
In this exclusive comment to The Globe and Mail, AIMS Fellow in Health Care Policy, Dr. David Zitner, points out people are more important than medicare. He delivers a message to delegates of the upcoming CMA convention, don't confuse care with delivery. Zitner reminds doctors their first obligation is to do no harm to their patients, not to government programs.
In this article that appeared in the Toronto Star, Brian Ferguson takes a look at a national pharmacare program and how to pay for it. It's a plan that could be used for more than just pharmaceuticals, if, as he suggests, Canadians acknowledge that while the government may pay the bills for health care, it uses our money to do so.
AIMS' conference on the catastrophic gap in prescription drug coverage in Atlantic Canada attracted patients, health care workers, pharmaceutical companies, insurance brokers, and government officials. Media across the country picked up this story with its clear message that AIMS set the stage to place the catastrophic gap in prescription drug coverage on the national agenda.
On 16 May 2006, AIMS gathered the leading experts on the gap in prescription drug coverage from across the country.
Reaching consensus - AIMS invites discussion through the Canadian Health Care Consensus Group; AIMS tackles the catastrophic drug coverage problem in Atlantic Canada; and the institute publishes two new papers.
The Shape of Health Care to Come
In this edition of The Beacon there's news on the catastrophic gap in drug coverage; a new paper that shows aquaculture is FARMING, not fishing; and a lesson in resource revenue economics.