Episode 7: Interview with Dr. Katherine Fierlbeck, Professor at Dalhousie University
Description: Want to learn about Canada's famous health care system? We do a deep dive with Dr. Katherine Fierlbeck into understanding the single payer system, how it's shaped by politics, and if Canadian health care is really free.
Recorded: August 7th, 2019.
Location: Recorded remotely.
Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Bio: 2:48
How would you best the health care system in Canada?: 4:18
What is a single-payer system?: 6:58
Is Canadian health care really free?: 8:27
How is health care shaped by politics?: 13:47
What are the main issues in Canadian health care?: 17:32
Does the current health care system in Canada work?: 20:03
How do we fix or improve Canadian health care?: 22:38
What are alternative models of health care that Canada could be using?: 25:50
How can Canadians stay up to date and learn more about health care?: 33:34
Outro: 38:23
Dr. Katherine Fierlbeck
-Professor at Dalhousie University
Twitter: @kfierlbeck
Katherine Fierlbeck is a professor in the Department of Political Science, working in the areas of public policy and political theory at Dalhousie University. Dr. Fierlbeck is cross-appointed to the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, the Department of International Development Studies, and the European Studies Program. She is currently serving as the Director of the Jean Monnet Network for Health Law and Policy (http://jmhealthnet.org/), an EU-funded network promoting research on health law and policy across Europe and North America. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Healthy Populations Institute, and is on the research committee for the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy. Her areas of research include comparative health policy, health care politics and governance, and human rights theory, institutions, politics.
Additional Information and References:
Health Care in Canada (University of Toronto Press 2011).
Health Care Federalism in Canada, with W. Lahey (McGill-Queens University Press 2013).
Comparative Health Care Federalism, with H.Palley (Ashgate Press, 2015).
Nova Scotia: A Health System Profile (University of Toronto Press, 2018).
CIHI (Canadian Institute for Health Information).
North American Observatory on Health Systems & Policies (NAO).
Has a lot of info on Canadian Healthcare Systems.
Website.
Developing books that are open access and online.
First volume is on Nova Scotia.
Total health expenditure is expected to reach $264.4 billion or $7,068 per Canadian in 2019.
Canada Health Transfers (Transfer payments).