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Health Care in Regression: Contradictions, Tensions and Implications for Canadian Seniors

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  • Susan A. McDaniel
  • Neena L. Chappell

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Aging and seniors pose perplexing dilemmas to neoliberal agendas of health care "reform" and the concept of cost-cutting efficiency. At the same time, seniors are affected directly, and often first, by shifting health care priorities and processes, and they influence health care change. Contradictions, tensions and implications of current trends in Canadian health care are explored along five dimensions: the valuing of public health care by Canadians, attitudes toward cost-reductions, good health and longevity as intergenerational legacies, the vision of health care reform versus the reality, and health as a private/public good. Contradictions abound as well as a significant gap between current health care reform tendencies and public opinion.

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  • Susan A. McDaniel & Neena L. Chappell, 1999. "Health Care in Regression: Contradictions, Tensions and Implications for Canadian Seniors," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 25(1), pages 123-132, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:25:y:1999:i:1:p:123-132
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