Canadian-American Public Policy articles from November 2002

Canadian-American Public Policy archives from November 2002

To our readers.
November 1, 2002... At first glance readers familiar with CAPP will observe that this issue departs from the usual format. Rather than featuring a single essay, Number 51 contains several of varying lengths by five scholars, all focused on a single topic--health...

Fact or fiction? The Canadian Medicare "crisis" as viewed from the U.S. (Part I).
November 1, 2002... There are at present two conflicting images of Canada's Medicare available to observant adults in the United States. One is the conventional media portrait of crisis--from both U.S. and Canadian sources--an image of a program in deep trouble,...

Two commentaries on "fact or fiction?" (Part II).(a discussion of health care reform issues in Canada and the U.S.)
November 1, 2002... Ms. Riley is Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Care Policy, a non-profit forum consisting of health policy leaders from the executive and legislative branches of U.S. state governments. In [another essay] laying out...

National values, institutions, and health policies: what do they imply for [Canadian] Medicare reform? (Part III).
November 1, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION The Medicare program, it is quite often asserted, is special for Canadians because the program is taken to embody something distinctive and superior about Canadian social values. For some Canadians, it follows that any...