Download or read book Profit is not the cure 2010 written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has published in both the academic and popular literature with respect to macroeconomics, the history of economic thought, health care economics and in the area of the socio-economic determinants of health. [...] In the same year (3) Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, wrote Profit Is Not The Cure: A Call to Action on the Future of Health Care in Canada, an in-depth look into Canada's public health care system that provided an historical and political context for the health care debate that continues to this day. [...] With the share of hospital and physician costs of the overall economy being stable, and the share of overall health care costs rising, these "public" subsectors have come to absorb a declining share of the total spending on health care. [...] The source of increased health care expenditures is the private for-profit sector largely and unnecessarily outside the scope of the public system. [...] In contrast to the pure age factor, the observed changes in patterns of practices as reflected in the intensity of services offered to the elderly are dramatic.