 What to do about medicare? As problems mount, the debate over how to deal with health care grows more heated. Edited and introduced by Dr. David Gratzer, a physician and writer, this book puts health care in a national and international perspective.
Here, in one powerful volume, is a careful analysis of medicare’s past, present, and future. Drawing on the work of academics, journalists, policy analysts, and physicians, Better Medicine offers a sober examination of Canada’s health policy. There are more than a dozen contributors including Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, historian Michael Bliss, and economist William Watson.
Published by ECW Press of Montreal and Toronto, and now in bookstores.
“David Gratzer has done it again. As a follow up to his award-winning Code Blue, he has assembled a first-rate collection of writers to take a second run at Canada’s health care system. Better Medicine is better reading – and more useful – than most of the government reports we’ve seen over the years. It’s full of essential insights, free of jargon, and clears away many of Canada’s health care myths. The system code is still blue, but the diagnosis is getting clearer and Better Medicine will help all of us to think about how to fix it.”
~ Terence Corcoran, Editor-in-Chief, The Financial Post
“This book is thoughtful, provocative, and readable. It makes its points clearly and well. It is sure to stimulate debate and should be read by anyone interested in health care – consumers, providers, politicians, bureaucrats, researchers, academics, and policy analysts alike.”
~ Dr. Victor Dirnfeld, Former President, Canadian Medical Association From the Foreword
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