The White House Comes to AIMS: David Frum on Canada-US relations, why educators are blame AIMS for their own problems plus Brian Lee Crowley on natural gas distribution and the danger of opting for cheap pills now versus new drugs tomorrow.
Johan Hjertqvist summarises the healthcare advances made in Stockholm during the 1990s, describing the reforming process and its good results, but also new difficulties that have cropped up along the way.
AIMS Receives Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award for Excellence in Public Policy Think Tank Work
AIMS Receives its fourth Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award, Brian Lee Crowley issues the keynote “Call to Action” at the Nova Scotia Immigration Partnership Conference, promoting productivity and prosperity for Atlantic Canada and more.
Chancellor Park is a recently built investor-owned facility in St. John's. It is the only large for-profit nursing home in the capital city. The pilot project was an attempt to secure additional high needs beds without expanding the government run facilities in the city. This week Newfoundland Health Minister Gerald Smith released the results of a yearlong pilot study that compared the quality and cost of caring for high needs elderly in a not-for-profit government run home with a for-profit private home. It was no contest.
AIMS Releases first Report Card On Atlantic High Schools, Peter Fenwick on Newfoundland's Failed Welfare Reform, Atlantic Canada and the Canada - US Border of the Future, Immigrants and Atlantic Canada, AIMS before Commons Committee and AIMS' Swedish health care project garners national attention.
Two articles in recent days have sung the praises of AIMS' work in communicating to Canadian audiences Sweden's success in bringing consumer choice and accountability to publicly-funded health care. And in Alberta, Edmonton Journal columnist and National Post Editorial Board member Lorne Gunter also congratulates AIMS and other policy institutes that have worked to bring the Swedish story to Canada. According to Gunter, The point is, there are not merely two models of health care -- a state monopoly or laissez-faire. There are dozens of models around the world that successfully combine public and private elements, while increasing patient choice and service, and keeping costs in check. It is well past time our politicians considered them.
Two articles in recent days have sung the praises of AIMS' work in communicating to Canadian audiences Sweden's success in bringing consumer choice and accountability to publicly-funded health care. William Watson, editorializing in the Financial Post, congratulated AIMS, writing: The Swedes have grasped the crucial point that still escapes so many Canadian health-care decision-makers, namely, that the state can purchase health care for all without providing health care for anyone.
The Swedish Health Care in Transition project is written by Swedish health care reformer Johan Hjertqvist, and is published jointly by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (www.fcpp.org ) in Winnipeg. The project is generously supported by the Max Bell Foundation.
In this article from Healthcare Papers, AIMS Fellow in Health Policy Dr. David Zitner continues to engage his colleagues in a discussion of the inherent bias in a system where insurer also acts as regulator. In looking at the work of another fellow pioneer in this area, George Browman, Zitner finds further compelling evidence that the system is in need of fundamental change.