Tag Archives: health care
Value for Money in Health
The Conference Board is having a Summit on Sustainable Health and Health Care October 30th and 31st in Toronto featuring a plethora of media, industry, health service and academic experts who will focus on the need to refocus the health system “from treating acute illness to preventing and managing chronic disease so governments, healthcare leaders […]
Are faith and health care substitutes?
"Every single 1st world nation that is irreligious shares a set of distinctive attributes. These include handgun control, anti-corporal punishment and anti-bullying policies, rehabilitative rather than punitive incarceration, intensive sex education that emphasizes condom use, reduced socio-economic disparity via tax and welfare systems combined with comprehensive health care…" Gregory Paul and Phil Zuckerman. People in […]
For better or for worse – or for insurance coverage?
One of the puzzling things about the United States is its extraordinarily high marriage rate. Among OECD countries, only Turkey and Cyprus have a higher rate of marriage (Source, OECD).
Revenue Deficiency, Health Care Sustainability and the Fiscal Dividend
One of the arguments made in the public sector health care sustainability debate is that while the share of national income devoted to public health insurance has grown at a relatively modest rate, the provinces have weakened their resource base with fiscal measures that have reduced their rates of personal and corporate taxation. It has […]
Canada’s Kobyashi Maru Test
In the Star Trek universe, one of the curriculum requirements for Starfleet Officer cadets is the infamous Kobyashi Maru test – the test of ultimate character and command ability.
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