(DOWNLOAD) "Senate Committee Study on Canada's Health Care System." by Canadian Parliamentary Review * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Senate Committee Study on Canada's Health Care System.
- Author : Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 251 KB
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This article describes the work of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, chaired by Senator Michael Kirby. Over a two and one half year period the committee undertook a comprehensive study of Canada's Health Care System. Its final report was accorded almost as much attention as the Royal Commission on Health care that reported in November 2002, a month after the Senate Committee issued its final report. As a vehicle for examining and launching a debate on a complex public policy issue a Standing Senate Committee has some unique features that, under the right circumstances, can prove highly beneficial to the formulation of sound public policy and can have a significant influence on government. There were many factors that contributed to the ability of the Senate Committee to contribute positively to the public policy debate and have its recommendations treated with the utmost seriousness not only by the press, but also by recognized experts in the field, and, perhaps most significantly, by government. Of course, it did not hurt that the topic examined by the Committee was the federal role in the Canadian health care system, since health care regularly figures at the top of the list of public concerns. But public interest in the subject matter alone cannot account for the Committee's success. Factors that relate to the composition of the Committee, its strategy and its determination to see its mandate through to the end, need to be explored.