Better Medicine
Better Medicine: Reforming Canada’s Health Care, published in April 2002, is a brilliant collaboration of essays by some of Canada’s leading authorities in health care policy.
The Mazankowski health care report: a personal view
Comments from AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley to the Conference Board of Canada's Leader's Roundtable on the future of healthcare in Canada.
AIMS author discusses the potential role of for-profit hospitals and clinics
Professor Brian Ferguson identifies common Canadian myths about private health care systems and outlines the difficulties associated with estimating hospital productivity.
Health care: competition and the single payer
Provinces now pay over 85 per cent of the cost of increasingly costly public health care. This burden is inevitably driving governments to adopt an attitude of ever-greater neutrality between public and private suppliers of health care within our single-payer system. In this column, AIMS President, Brian Lee Crowley, explains the benefits to be gained when provincial governments act as purchasers of health care services on behalf of their citizens. Governments will soon buy health services wherever they can get the best quality and best access at the lowest price. Neither public nor private providers will get preferential treatment, and the general public will get better quality, more accessible health care because of it. Publication: CHH & MTT & VS & CH & OC, January 30, 2002
Unhealthy secrecy surrounds public health care
Due to conflict of interest, governments avoid clear performance measures for medicare
Public Health, State Secret
Dr. David Zitner and AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley demonstrate that politicians and senior health officials simply don’t know where or why medicare is failing because they still lack the proper tools to evaluate the quality or timeliness of the care Canadians receive.
The Mazankowski Report on Alberta health care: the AIMS connection
On 8 January 2002 the report of the Alberta Premier's Advisory Council on Health was released. Chaired by former Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazankowski. AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley was a member of the Council and AIMS supplied valuable background and comparative information that was fed into the Alberta process.
AIMS Launches Health Reform Website
Health Care's Hidden Face: The Private Sector and its Relationship with Medicare
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.