Following up on the work and reports of the IRPP Task Force on Health Care (released September 2000 and January 2003), the IRPP has undertaken a number of specific research projects and initiatives in an effort to foster greater public debate on selected strategic issues in the context of the findings and recommendations of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology and the Romanow Commission.

Studies published to date :

• Health Services Restructuring in Canada: New Evidence and New Directions
  Charles Beach (ed.), France St-Hilaire (ed.), Sam Shortt (ed.) et al.
  Monograph, December 2006
  

• Health Services Restructuring: New Evidence and New Directions
  various authors
  Conference Paper, November 2005
  

• Planning for the Next Pandemic Threat: Defining the Federal Role in Public Health Emergencies
  Kumanan Wilson, Harvey Lazar
  Policy Matters, November 2005
  

• Riding the Third Rail: The Story of Ontario's Health Services Restructuring Commission, 1996-2000
  Duncan Sinclair, Mark Rochon, Peggy Leatt
  Monograph, August 2005
  

• Careful Consideration: Decision Making in the Health Care System
  various authors
  Conference Paper, November 2004
  

• Why Competition is Essential in the Delivery of Publicly Funded Health Care Services
  Michael Kirby, Wilbert Keon
  Policy Matters, September 2004
  

• The Arithmetic of Health Care
  Janice MacKinnon
  Policy Matters, July 2004
  

• Defining the Medicare Basket
  Colleen Flood, Carolyn Tuohy, Mark Stabile
  Working papers, April 2004
  

• Money, Politics and Health Care: Reconstructing the Federal-Provincial Partnership
  Harvey Lazar (ed.), France St-Hilaire (ed.)
  Monograph, January 2004
  

• Medicare as a Moral Enterprise: The Romanow and Kirby Perspectives
  Thomas J. Courchene
  Policy Matters, October 2003
  

• Recommendations to First Ministers in the Light of the Senate Committee and the Romanow Commission
  IRPP Task Force on Health Poli
  Special report, January 2003
  

• A Patients' Bill of Rights: A Cure for Canadians' Concerns About Health Care?
  Colleen Flood, Tracey Epps
  Policy Matters, November 2002
  

• Comprehensiveness in Public Health Care: An Impediment To Effective Restructuring
  Claude E. Forget
  Policy Matters, October 2002
  

• Toward a National Strategy on Drug Insurance: Challenges and Priorities
  various authors
  Conference Paper, September 2002
  

• What Is the Best Public-Private Model for Canadian Health Care?
  Kieke G.H. Okma
  Policy Matters, May 2002
  

• A Patients' Bill of Rights for Ontario?
  various authors
  Conference Paper, October 2001
  

• Recommendations to First Ministers
  IRPP Task Force on Health Poli
  Special report, September 2000
  

• Who is the Master? A Blueprint for Canadian Health Care Reform *out of print*
  Monique Jérôme-Forget, Claude E. Forget
  Monograph, 1998
  

• Les marchés internes dans le contexte canadien
  Monique Jérôme-Forget, Claude E. Forget
  Choices, May 1995
  

• Health Care Reform Through Internal Markets: Experience and Proposals *out of print*
  Monique Jérôme-Forget (ed.), Joseph White (ed.), Joshua M. Wiener (ed.)
  Monograph, 1995