ABOUT THE BOOK

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    Accession Number

 B4822

    Title

 Exploring Social Insurance: Can A Dose Of Europe Cure Canadian Health Care Finance?

    Author

 Flood, Colleen M/ Stabile, Mark/ Tuohy, Carolyn Hughes

    Publisher

 school of Policy Studies, Queen's University

    ISBN

 978-1-55339-136-4

     Summary

Sustainability, quality, accessibility- is it possible to obtain a balance of all three in any health care system? In Canada, as in all OECD nations, governments are wrestling with this question as health care costs exert increasing pressure on the public purse. Several nations are seeking to diversify the sources of public funding by varying the mix of general taxation and social insurance. The papers in this volume address and debate the merits of diversifying beyond Canada’s existing reliance on general taxation, to include a component of social insurance for health care.