A Frontier interview with Author and Education Reformer Mark Holmes
Year: 2002
Sweden’s Model of Consumer Choice in Healthcare
Swedish health reforms shift single payer system from public service monopoly, hierarchy and top-down attitudes to diverse providers, networks and consumer power
Health Care Treatment Prices In Swedish Hospitals
How Sweden uses “Diagnostic Related Groups” or DRGs to price treatment procedures in hospitals; this item includes the prices for almost 500 treatments (converted in Canadian dollars). How much does it cost for a heart transplant in Sweden? Find out here.
More Parental Choice in Schools
Educator and Author Mark Holmes sees more parental control over education as the key to higher performing school systems.
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Shift Priority Tax Emphasis to Land
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The Reality of Public Education in the 21st Century
Outcome-based education, the end of school boards, reforming teacher certification and school choice will be the main trends in public education
More cash won’t solve health-care problems
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World Summit on Sustainable Development
The World Summit on Sustainable Development is being held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Health-care conflict hurts patients
Among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, Canada is unique in having no private-sector involvement in the hospital sector.
B.C. Moves To Reform Liquor
On July 24, British Columbia announced it will open up the retail liquor business and invite more private vendors to sell spirits to the public. The new policy has merits on its own, but even more important is its underlying principle.
Low Farm Prices Won’t Go Away
Continued low grain prices, bad weather and more farm subsidies evoke visions of tractors in the streets and more farm aid concerts on TV.