Description: What if Canada's health-care system were to become a two-tier system? Would wait times be eliminated? Answering this question is critical given an ongoing Charter challenge in British Columbia.
Brief description: Bryan Thomas is Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics and Adjunct Professor with the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. His research spans a wide range of topics including Canadian and comparative health law and policy, health rights litigation, long-term care, global health law, and the role of religious argument in legal and political discourse.
Review Quotes: The most unusual feature of Canadian health care policy--illuminated by chapters on medical finance in other rich democracies--is how judicial decision making in Medicare's past and present has become dominated by constitutional law and disputes about how much market allocation is tolerable in an egalitarian program like Canada's Medicare. How that came to be over the past few decades and what the BC Cambie Clinic case means for the future is what this serious work of scholarship provides.-- "PUO-UOP"