Project Title: Exploring Alternative Funding Models for Canadian Health Care

Research Team:
Roos, L.
Forget, E.
Deber, R.
Walld, R.

Funded by CIHR. Renewed in 2004 with additional co-investigators:
Kozyrskyj, A.
Lix , L.
Roos, N.

Portions of this research will become the thesis of Kenneth C.K. Lam.

This project analyzed Manitoba utilization data to examine the potential implications of various proposed funding models, including Medical Savings Accounts.

This project has been declared a Milestone of Health Services Research by CIHR.

Selected Presentations:

• Deber, R., Walld, R., Forget, E. & Roos, L. "Designing Drug Benefit Plans: How are pharmaceutical costs distributed in the population?", The 1st Conference of the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR), Montreal PQ, May 25-28, 2004.

Selected Publications:

• Forget, E., Deber, R. B., Roos, L. L., & Walld, R. Canadian Health Reform: A Gender Analysis. Feminist Economics. 11(1): 123-141, 2005. The definitive version can be found at Feminist Economics, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/13545701.html

• Deber, R., Forget, E., & Roos, L. Medical savings accounts in a universal system: wishful thinking meets evidence. Health Policy, 70(1):49-66, 2004. The definitive version can be found at Health Policy, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/healthpol
  

• Forget EL, Deber RB, Roos LL, "Medical Savings Accounts: Will they reduce costs?, CMAJ, 167(2). July 23, 2002. The definitive version can be found at Canadian Medical Association Journal, http://www.cmaj.ca/
  

• Deber, Raisa B., Forget, Evelyn L., Roos, Leslie L. MSAs: Even Less Than Meets The Eye. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy Technical Report 28-Sept-02. Downloaded from http://www.umanitoba.ca/centres/mchp/hot_topic/msa/MSA_less_meets_eye_october_1_2002.prn.pdf, last accessed 28 February 2007.

• De Coster, Carolyn, Deber, Raisa, Roos, Noralou, and Forget, Evelyn L. When evidence meets rhetoric: the case of MSAs. CentrePiece, 2002; 12: 1-2