The Best-Laid Plans

by C.G. Prado, Carlos Prado, Lawrie McFarlane

Is health care like the BC Ferry Service or Ontario Hydro? Lawrie McFarlane and Carlos Prado argue that health care is being treated as though it were just another public utility and that the present crisis in medicare has developed precisely because of this approach. In The Best-Laid Plans they contend that what health care needs is less centralized management and the restoration of empowerment to both patients and care-givers. Contrary to recent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773523642
• ISBN13: 9780773523647
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 216 Pages