Access to care, access to justice : the legal debate over private health insurance in Canada /
Historically, the Supreme Court of Canada has avoided direct intervention in health care policy-making. This posture changed dramatically with the release of the Chaoulli decision in June 2005. In a narrow four-to-three decision, the Supreme Court struck down Quebec laws prohibiting the sale of priv...
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Table of Contents:
- Chaoulli : the political versus the legal life of a judicial decision / Peter H. Russell
- The Chaoulli decision : less than meets the eye
- or more? / Bernard M. Dickens
- Chaoulli and Quebec's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms : the ambiguities of distinctness / Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens and Charles-Maxime Panaccio
- Charter perspectives on Chaoulli : the body and the body politic / Lorraine Weinrib
- Worse than Lochner? / Sujit Choudhry
- Condition critical : the constitution and health care / Allan Hutchinson
- Wealthcare : the politics of the Charter re-visited / Andrew Petter
- Déjà vu all over again : Chaoulli and the limits of judicial policy-making / Christopher P. Manfredi
- Towards a two-tier constitution? : the poverty of health rights / Lorne Sossin
- The courts and Medicare : too much or too little judicial activism? / Kent Roach
- Implications of Chaoulli for fact finding in constitutional cases / Hamish Stewart
- Experts and evidence : new challenges in knowledge translation / Morris Barer
- Different interpretations of "evidence" and implications for the Canadian healthcare system / Charles J. Wright
- How to defend a public health care system : lessons from abroad / Alan Maynard
- Blending private and social health insurance in the Netherlands : challenges posed by the EU / André den Exter
- The role of private health insurance in social health insurance countries : implications for Canada / Stefan Greß
- Finding health policy "arbitrary" : the evidence on waiting, dying, and two-tier systems / Colleen M. Flood, Mark Stabile and Sasha Kontic
- The CMA's Chaoulli motion and the myth of promoting fair access to health care / Trudo Lemmens and Tom Archibald
- Preserving privilege, promoting profit : the payoffs from private health insurance / Robert G. Evans
- Opening Medicare to our neighbours or closing the door on a public system? : international trade law implications of Chaoulli v. Quebec / Tracey Epps and David Schneiderman
- Promises, promise : setting boundaries between public and private / Claude E. Forget
- Politics and paradoxes : Chaoulli and the Alberta reaction / Timothy Caulfield and Nola Ries
- Private insurance for Medicare : policy history and trajectory in the four western provinces / Greg Marchildon
- A just measure of patience : managing access to cancer services after Chaoulli / T. Sullivan [and others]
- Section 7 "safety valves" : appealing wait times within a one-tier system / Caroline Pitfield and Colleen M. Flood
- Arbitrariness, Randomness and the Principles of fundamental justice / Stanley Hartt
- In search of a mandate? / Roy Romanow.