Mac4Medicare is proud to host this lecture featuring the director of CHEPA, Dr.Michel Grignon.
With the expiration of the Canada Health Accord in 2014 many experts had believed that now was the time to reform Canada's Healthcare system for the better. Instead of leading the country in the face of growing pressures on Canada's Healthcare system, the Federal government has chosen to remain bystanders in handling our most cherished social service.
Dr.Grignon's lecture will examine how the new Canada Health Transfers increase the inequity in wealth between provinces, challenges the Canada Health Act and increases decentralization which challenges the unity of Canada as a nation. The new hands-off approach by the Federal Government was justified under the veil of ensuring sustainability. This lecture will look at the policy environment in which the new healthcare transfers came about and debunk the myth that Canada's Healthcare System is unsustainable.
Refreshments will be served. Please join us at 6pm on February15, 2012 at the Degroote School of Business rm A102 as we examine the future of the healthcare in Canada.
Thank you to the MSU and BHSS for helping making this event possible!
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Agenda for the event (please try to arrive on time):
6:00-6:05 Introduction by members of M4M.
6:05- 7:00 Presentation by Dr.Grignon
7:00- 7:20 Moderated question an answer period with the audience
7:20- Closing remarks
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Dr.Michel Grignon
Michel Grignon, who was named director of CHEPA on Sept. 1, 2011, is an associate professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University. He is also an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Health Economics in Paris, France. Before joining McMaster in July 2004, he worked at the Institut de Recherche, d’Etudes et de Documentation en Economie de la Santé (IRDES) in Paris. He was born in France, and obtained his Master’s Equivalent at the National School for Statistics and Economics in Paris, and his PhD at Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, also in Paris. Grignon has extensive experience at an international level in research projects and activities in the areas of health economics, health-related policies, health insurance and aging. His current research projects cover a broad range of topics, including how an aging society impacts health care expenditures in Canada and in France. He is also involved in research examining inequities in health care utilization and health policy in Canada, as well as exploring equity and efficiency by using experimental economic methods for financing health care.
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