title: Medicare: innovation is the key to sustainability?
abstract: Money is important to healthcare; many of the problems of the past decade are a result of capricious decisions by government, slashing funding and then pouring it into the system. Healthcare needs stable, predictable funding. But, overall, Canada's health system has neither been a glutton for funding nor has it been starved. The real problems in our system relate to quality of care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.
authors.forename: Michael M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Rachlis
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D005380:Financing, Government; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D006291:Health Policy; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011787:Quality of Health Care