The constitutional validity of a restricted role for private health care.(Charter arguments in favour of a parallel private health care system, part 2)(Canada)

From: The Advocate | Date: November 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

This is the second part of a two-part article in which we review the constitutional validity of the current health care system in Canada. In the first, we reviewed the relevant federal and provincial legislation governing the Canadian medicare system ("Medicare"), concluding that the result of that legislation is to effectively prohibit the development of a parallel private health care system in Canada. In this part, we argue that preventing Canadians seeking health services from privately financing those services infringes their rights to life and security of the person, as ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Pharmacy and the U.S. Health Care System
; ...Editors. Pharmacy and the U.S. Health Care System, Third edition. New York: Pharmaceutical...1875-6. Pharmacy and the U.S. Health Care System (third edition) covers various aspects of the US health care system with an emphasis on pharmacists...
Managed care: employer's influence on the health care system.
; ...care is having on the current health care system and how it will affect the...consider the evolution of our health care system. It is necessary to know who...the roles each plays in the health care system's evolution. However, no one...
A family health care system. (Editorial)
; ...Western world without a national health care system to assure equitable access...establishment of a national health care system.[1,2] Our society is not fully...maintain rather than change the health care system because we value the right...
1990 FINDS U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AT CROSSROADS
; The American health care system is at a crossroads. Health care...answered will dictate the kind of health care system that will evolve. Uncompensated...course, any major change in our health care system will have ethical implications...
Reforming the Health Care System: An American Paradox
; ...Americans their opinion of the U.S. health care system, as poll after poll has done...debating how to fix the U.S. health care system. How it is that a problem of...hidden infrastructure of the health care system. It involves the way that dollars...
Nation's Leading Physician Groups Join Together to Announce Principles for Reforming the U.S. Health Care System
; ...principles to reformthe U.S. health care system. This unity among physician...Congress campaignedon fixing the health care system, the Principles serve as a...individual health and the collective health care system in theU.S. The Principles For...
QUALITY OF CARE IN VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM:KENNETH W. KIZER, M.D., M.P.H.
; ...THE FUTURE OF THE VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS...transformation of the veterans health care system that has occurred over the...perspective, that the veterans health care system is unique in this country and...
FIX THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.(Editorial)
; ...we cannot afford our present health care system without serious change. The problem is cost control. The health care system is not efficient in delivering...have a largely government-paid health care system, this legislative session faces...
Cost tops list of concerns for U.S. health care system.
; ATLANTA-The U.S. health care system faces a number of crises that...three crises afflict the U.S. health care system. The first is the return of sharp...large amount of waste in the health care system. Mr. Reinhardt said the crisis...
Canada needs a real public health care system.(Editorial)
; ...people like to think of Canada's health care system as an example of socialist...true that aspects of Canada's health care system are publicly owned and/or publicly...or social character of the health care system is most clearly seen in the...