Diagnostics and solutions: Building consensus for a health care reform in Canada
Fearing that the soaring costs of health care are about to engulf nearly half of their budgets, the governments of Canada's thirteen provinces and territories are seriously considering solutions which may challenge the integrity, if not the existence, of the first publicly funded health care system in the Americas.
"Ten years ago, I was just finishing my doctorate and people in the U.S. were asking if Canada was the model for their health system " Antonia Maioni, Director of the 捆绑SM社区 Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC) is quoted as saying to The Gazette columnist L. Ian Macdonald. "In 10 years that discourse has changed. Now they're saying we should look at their HMOs."
Author of Parting at the Crossroads: The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, Professor Maioni is confident that the MISC public conference, to be held February 14-16, 2002, will provide her fellow citizens with a better understanding of the reforms needed and proposed for healthcare in Canada.
An impressive number of experts have accepted the invitation to speak at the Building Consensus for a Health Care Reform in Canada: Diagnostics and Solutions conference. Whatever their position or stripe, they will all be at the Montreal Renaissance Hotel to help build a consensus on healthcare reform: former politicians, such as ex federal Minister of National Health and Welfare Monique B茅gin, author of the Canada Health Act of 1984, Claude Castonguay, father of Qu茅bec's assurance maladie, and ex Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow, Chair of the Royal Commission on Health Care in Canada; active politicians, such as federal Health minister Anne McLellan ; policy makers, such as Duncan Sinclair (Ontario), Ken Fyke (Saskatchewan) and Michel Clair,(Quebec); academics, such as Tom Noseworthy (U. of Alberta), Andr茅-Pierre Contandriopoulos (U. de Montr茅al) and Margaret Somerville (捆绑SM社区 U.) as well as activists, such as Sharon Sholzberg-Gray (Canadian Healthcare Association) and policy analysts such as Michael Decter (Canadian Institute for Health Information).
Journalists are invited to see herewith the list of keynote speakers (with telephone numbers) who are willing to speak to the media before and during the conference.
Members of the public who want to participate are invited to register with the 捆绑SM社区 Institute for the Study of Canada: telephone: 514-398-2605 or 2658. facsimile: 514-398-7336. email: johanne.bilodeau [at] mcgill.ca or lynne.darroch [at] mcgill.ca. Registration fee (two lunches are included): $175 (regular), $150 (65 and over), $25 (students). Simultaneous translation will be available. Further information about the MISC conference is available on the 捆绑SM社区 homepage: or on the MISC's web site: .
Thirty Years of Evolution: The Public Model of Health Care in Canada
Professor Antonia Maioni *, 捆绑SM社区 Institute for the Study of Canada 514-398-4815.
The Future of Health Care in Canada
The Honourable Roy Romanow, Royal Commission on The Future of Health Care in Canada c/o Julie Schneiderman at 306-975-6888
Reality Check: Health Care in Canada
The Honourable Edward Broadbent * 613-233-5986
Mr. Andr茅 Picard *, The Globe and Mail 514-982-3063
Professor Carolyn Tuohy, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto 416-978-2181
Beyond the Water's Edge: European Comparisons
Professor Jane Jenson *, Institut d'茅tudes europ茅ennes, Universit茅 de Montr茅al-捆绑SM社区, 514-343-2079
Professor Kieke Okma *, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University , Senior Policy Advisor,Ministry of Health, Netherlands +3170-340-7236
Professor Carolyn Tuohy, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto 416-978-2181
Is There a Crisis in Health Care Financing?
Dr. Stephen Bornstein*, Institute for Work and Health 416-927-2027 #2118
Professor Douglas E. Angus *, School of Management, University of Ottawa (613)562-2500 #4720
Professor Andr茅-Pierre Contandriopoulos *, Department of Health Administration, Universit茅 de Montr茅al 514-343-6181
Mr. Claude Forget *, 捆绑SM社区 Health Centre and Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) Task Force on Health Policy 514-842-4587
Dr. Hugh Scott *, 捆绑SM社区 Health Centre, 514-843-1560
Who Has Access to Care?
Dr. Samuel E.D. Shortt, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University 613-533-5387
Dr. Tom Noseworthy, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary 780-492-1019
Values and Public Policy in Medicine
Dr. Margaret Somerville, 捆绑SM社区 Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, 捆绑SM社区 514-398-7401
What Are the Choices to be Made?
Dr. Henry Haddad *, Canadian Medical Association 613-731-8610
Dr. Ginette Lemire Rodger *, Canadian Nurses Association 613-237-2159 #221
Ms. Sharon Sholzberg-Gray *, Canadian Healthcare Association 613-241-8005
Health Care Professionals, Supply and Consequences
Dr. Susan French, School of Nursing, 捆绑SM社区 514-398-4145
Dr. Hugh Scully, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto 416-340-3693
Hospitals in the 21st Century
Mr. Daniel C. Sloane, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California 213-740-5768
Dr. Nicolas Steinmetz *, Associate Executive Director, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, 捆绑SM社区 Health Centre, 514-934-5060 #673
Mr. Eberhard Zeidler, Zeidler Grinnell Partnership, Toronto 416-596-8300
The Questions of Privatization
The Honourable Claude Castonguay, Consultant 514-767-7908
Professor Kieke Okma *, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University , Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Health, Netherlands +3170-340-7236
What Goes into the Medicare Basket?
Professor Colleen Flood *, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto 416-978-4929
Dr. Maurice McGregor, 捆绑SM社区 and Royal Victoria Hospital 514-842-1231 #35056
The Real Issues, the Hard Choices
Mr. Michael Decter *, Canadian Institute for Health Information and Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) Task Force on Health Policy 416-921-5588
Evaluating Solutions and Building Consensus
The Honourable Yves Morin *, Senate standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology 613-992-1689
Pharmacare and Drug Therapy
Mr. Bryan Ferguson *, Partner, Applied Management 416-487-2855
The Potentials and Problems of Home Care
Dr. Peter Coyte, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto 416-978-8369
The Role and Value of Primary Care Practice
Dr. Marie-Dominique Beaulieu *, Unit茅 de recherche 茅valuative, Centre de recherche CHUM (514)890-8000 #28046
Public-Private Partnerships in Health Care
Dr. Bob Bear, Vice-President, Academic Affairs, Capital Health Authority 780-413-7729
Dr. Paul Leduc-Browne *, Senior Research Fellow, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 613-563-1341
Overcoming Gridlock: From Solution to Decision to Action
Professor Allan Maslove, Dean, Faculty of Public Affairs and Management, Carleton University 613-520-3741
Intergovernmental Relations at an Impasse?
Professor Keith Banting, School of Policy Studies, Department of Political Science, Queen's University 613-533-6555
Globalizing Health Care
Mr. Matthew Sanger *, Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives and Saskatchewan Population Health Evaluation and Research Unit 613-730-1425
Health "System" Organization
Dr. Sholom Glouberman *, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto 416-785-2862
Professor Brenda Zimmerman *, Strategy & Organization, Faculty of Management, 捆绑SM社区 514-398-5746
Community-Level Initiative and Implementation
Miss Lisa Little, Canadian Nurses Association 613-237-2133 #209
Ms. Bretta Maloff, Calgary Health Region, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary 403-943-8008
MERCK FROSST Canada is the principal partner of Diagnostics and Solutions: Building Consensus for a Health Care Reform in Canada, the year 2002 MISC Public Conference, which is also sponsored by the governments of Canada and Qu茅bec as well as by IRPP and Universit茅 de Montr茅al and 捆绑SM社区's Institute of European Studies.
