Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care

Gregory P. Marchildon is a professor emeritus at the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and the founding director of the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.Livio Di Matteo is Professor of Economics at Lakehead University. His articles have appeared in many academic international health journals, including the Journal of Health Economics, Health Policy, European Journal of Health Economics, and Health Economics, Policy and Law.

• List of Illustrations Introduction and Overview Part I: General Considerations on Bending the Cost Curve1. Why We Should Bend the Cost Curve and How We Could Do ItUwe Reinhardt2. Financial Incentives and Pay-for-PerformanceJeremiah Hurley and Jinhu Li3. Tax Burdens and Aging John Richards and Colin Busby Part II: Pan-Canadian Cost Drivers and Political Considerations4. Common Provincial Determinants and Cost DriversLivio Di Matteo and J. C. Herb Emery5. PharmaceuticalsSteven G. Morgan, Jamie R. Daw, and Paige A. Thomson6. Paying the Health WorkforcePhil Leonard and Arthur Sweetman7. Three Federal Approaches to Cost Containment in Health CareKatherine Fierlbeck8. The Federal Role in Health CarePierre-Gerlier Forest Part III: Provincial Experiences in Canada9. Ontario: Changing Policies, Changing CategoriesRaisa Deber and Sara Allin10. Québec: Sustainability-Perception and RealityFrançois Béland and Claude Galand11. British Columbia: Cost Control in the Country of the Red QueenKimberlyn M. McGrail and Robert G. Evans12. Alberta: Health Spending in the Land of PlentyStephen Duckett13. Saskatchewan and Manitoba: Managing DownGregory P. Marchildon14. Atlantic Canada: The Impact of Aging on the Cost Curve Joe Ruggeri Part IV: What Can Canada Learn from the International Evidence?15. The United States Gerard Anderson16. Australia Stephen Duckett17. England Alan Maynard18. Nordic Countries Jon Magnussen19. Taiwan and Other Advanced Asian Economies Tsung-Mei Cheng Index