[EQ] Private Health Insurance in Canada

Private Health Insurance in Canada

 

Jeremiah Hurley, Departments of Economics and Clinical Epidemiology, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Ontario Canada

G. Emmanuel Guindon, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada

October 15, 2008 This paper is forthcoming as a chapter in Private Health Insurance and Medical Savings Accounts: Lessons from International Experience,
 S. Thomson, E. Mossialos and R. G. Evans, Eds, London: Cambridge University Press.

The Centre for Health Economics and policy Analysis (CHEPA) Working Paper Series, 2008

 

Available online at:

http://www.chepa.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=pdf%2fCHEPA+WP+08-04+Hurley_PrivIns_Canada_Rd2_Oct15_fnl_WPsub.pdf&tabid=130&mid=450

 

“…..begins with a brief overview of the Canadian health care system; considers the historical path that led to the current role for private health insurance; examines the current market for private health insurance; assesses the evidence for how private insurance contributes to or detracts from health financing goals; and offers some concluding comments on private health insurance in Canada…”

 

“…..The debate about the role of private insurance in Canada marshals powerful forces on each side, and regardless of the specific ways in which these and related policy debates turn out, two things are certain: Canada can benefit by drawing on the wider international experience with health care finance to craft policies that advance its public policy objectives and minimize the extent to which the development of private insurance detracts from these objectives; and private insurance will figure more prominently in Canadian policy debates in the coming decades than it has since the founding of Medicare….”

 

 

 

 

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