Money, Politics, and Health Care

The sustainability of Canada's universal public health care system is linked to health care reform. Such reform is proving very difficult, given the prevailing uncertainty about the amount of federal funding for provincial health care systems and the conditions placed on accepting it.

A collection of essays which analyse issues in federal-provincial health care relations, particularly the fiscal component. It looks at why there is a role for the federal government in health care and considers the critical issues in intergovernmental political battles over this role.The sustainability of Canada