Mapping the route to more effective health care
To improve value and spur innovation, we need to change the way we pay for health care by encouraging those providers who experiment and innovate
Health care costs the public sector about $160 billion a year in Canada, a higher per-capita cost than most industrialized nations. Yet Canadians are not markedly healthier, nor do we receive better care. The Commonwealth Fund has ranked Canada 10th out of 11 developed nations for the efficiency of our health-care system (only the United States…