In a recent article on cross-border healthcare (“Have illness, will travel?”, 24-30 March), you looked ahead to the directive on cross-border healthcare, which has since been formally adopted, and wrote that “relatively few people are expected to take advantage of the law”, noting that current cross-border care is worth €10 billion, less than 1% of current healthcare spending”.
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Breakfast on the Frontier – Worst Among Equals – With Johan Hjertqvist and Rebecca Walberg
Watch Johan Hjertqvist and Rebecca Walberg present their Canada Health Consumer Index 2008 on Breakfast on the Frontier. (77 minutes)
Medicare Program Fails to Measure up to European Model
What we found by including Canada into our well-established European ranking of health-care systems was that Canada cannot compete. Canada took the 23rd place out of 30, actually doing well only in the category of treatment outcomes.
Market Medicine
If consumers had better access to information about their health and how to navigate the health-care system, they would be capable of addressing the inequalities and malfunctions of today. The Health Consumer Index gives consumers this information so they can make informed decisions about their health care.
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
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Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
A Debate Over Swedish Health Care Reform
A Winnipeg editorialist takes a hit for praising the opening of the healthcare market in Stockholm, and Johan Hjertqvist responds to the critics.
Competing Hospitals and Providers Work Miracles
To make hospitals depend more on the income they generate by attracting patients and performing treatments has a radical “psychological impact” on the organization – Sweden
Important step towards a European care market
EU citizens are now entitled to seek medical care anywhere within the EU and to have it paid for by their country of domicile.
The End of the Beginning
The End of the Beginning – a short international update on the Stockholm healthcare revolution – summarises the healthcare advances made in Stockholm during the 1990s, describing the reforming process and its good results, but also the new difficulties that have cropped up along the way.
Political Prestige or Consumer Focus?
International ranking agencies today seriously challenge the official view of the Canadian healthcare system as a rare jewel. Rare perhaps, but with a fading lustre.
Social Democrats Welcome Private Companies into Swedish Healthcare
The Social Democratic Minister of Health, Lars Engqvist, is now explicitly welcoming more private – even for-profit – players into Swedish healthcare.
The Definitely Not the Romanow Report
This 78 page report draws the research in AIMS’ Health Policy Background Papers together into a comprehensive proposal for fundamental reform of the Canadian health care system in order to address the number one challenge facing Medicare – sustainability.
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.