Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments should work together to fund pharmacare, dental care and rehabilitation as part of an improved funding model
Author: Gregory Marchildon
Gregory P. Marchildon is the Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design with the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Previously, he was Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Economic History at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. Prof. Marchildon received his PhD from the London School of Economics, and later served for five years at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. In the 1990s, he was Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and subsequently Deputy Minister to the Premier and Cabinet Secretary in the Government of Saskatchewan. From 2001-2002, he was executive director of a federal Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (the Romanow Commission).