The Stockholm metropolitan area has witnessed a rapid transition in the style and format of health care. The new, competition-based model of public healthcare is now about to hit the emergency room and operating theatre in that city.
Water Exports – A Manitoba Bonanza?
An enormous volume of self-renewing fresh water flows through Manitoba each year. The system of rivers that drain into Hudson’s Bay have played an important economic role for centuries.
Winnipeg’s Property Tax Number One
Our 2001survey and comparison of property taxes across Canada shows Winnipeg with among the highest in the nation.
Private health — it works for Sweden
Private hospitals? Contracting out of health services? Last week, Mr. Harris flirted with the unthinkable: “If we’re going to have a universal system, we should not be afraid to say, ‘Can the private sector run this hospital better? Can they provide this service better? If they can, why should we fear that?’ “
The Internet Empowers Swedish Healthcare Consumers
In Stockholm healthcare consumers can go online to compare waiting lists and choose between private and public providers.
Urban Transport and the Purchaser/Provider Split
Over the past two decades, various countries have established policies to shift the production of transit services into a competitive environment.
Westward Ho, The Tax Base
The 2001 Prairie Tax Load Index is the summation of a province’s key tax rates – the top marginal rates on personal and corporate income, payroll and capital, as well as sales taxes.
*Alberta Streaks Ahead
Alberta has been lowering taxes since 1997 and on Jan. 1 it became the first province to switch to a single-rate income tax system, dropping the levy to 10% from an originally planned 10.5%.
Swedish Healthcare in Transition
The day in October when I returned to Sweden, the Social Democrat government, with Green Party support, finally presented a bill intended to forbid the selling of emergency hospitals to profit-making companies.