À votre santé: Is the Canadian healthcare system really so bad?
In The Health-care Grass Isn’t Always Greener, (The Globe & Mail, April 6th 2009), C.D. Howe Institute Research Fellow, Dr. Claire de Oliveira, finds that improvements to our healthcare system are needed and must revolve around cost-effective solutions while drawing relevant lessons from other countries. Dr. de Oliveira suggests the use of co-payments as a type of improvement that could potentially control costs by discouraging overuse of the system, could be set to low levels for the general population, and refunded to lower-income families to ensure equity in access.
For the OpEd click here.
