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Book SynopsisThrough Canadian and international perspectives, Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care explores the management of growing health costs in an extraordinarily complex arena.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction and Overview Part I: General Considerations on Bending the Cost Curve 1. Why We Should Bend the Cost Curve and How We Could Do It Uwe Reinhardt 2. Financial Incentives and Pay-for-Performance Jeremiah Hurley and Jinhu Li 3. Tax Burdens and Aging John Richards and Colin Busby Part II: Pan-Canadian Cost Drivers and Political Considerations 4. Common Provincial Determinants and Cost Drivers Livio Di Matteo and J. C. Herb Emery 5. Pharmaceuticals Steven G. Morgan, Jamie R. Daw, and Paige A. Thomson 6. Paying the Health Workforce Phil Leonard and Arthur Sweetman 7. Three Federal Approaches to Cost Containment in Health Care Katherine Fierlbeck 8. The Federal Role in Health Care Pierre-Gerlier Forest Part III: Provincial Experiences in Canada 9. Ontario: Changing Policies, Changing Categories Raisa Deber and Sara Allin 10. Qu bec: Sustainability-Perception and Reality Fran ois B land and Claude Galand 11. British Columbia: Cost Control in the Country of the Red Queen Kimberlyn M. McGrail and Robert G. Evans 12. Alberta: Health Spending in the Land of Plenty Stephen Duckett 13. Saskatchewan and Manitoba: Managing Down Gregory P. Marchildon 14. Atlantic Canada: The Impact of Aging on the Cost Curve Joe Ruggeri Part IV: What Can Canada Learn from the International Evidence? 15. The United States Gerard Anderson 16. Australia Stephen Duckett 17. England Alan Maynard 18. Nordic Countries Jon Magnussen 19. Taiwan and Other Advanced Asian Economies Tsung-Mei Cheng Index
