Reading Time: 4 minutes New way to pay hospitals offers lessons on change management
Author: Karen Palmer
Karen Palmer is an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University, independent health policy analyst, and health services researcher at Women’s College Research Institute. She joined FHS at 2008 where she taught comparative health care policy and coordinated the MPH practicum program until 2013. For 25+ years, Karen’s passion has been comparative health care funding and delivery systems, policies, and reforms (mostly US, Europe, and Canada), underpinned by a belief that health care is a human right. Her work aims to bridge evidence and practice.
Why U.S. doctors are calling for Canadian-style medicare
Reading Time: 3 minutes And why a B.C. court case challenging our single-payer health system threatens to ramp up Canadian costs and decrease accessibility of care