Health Law, Ethics & Policy Seminar Series
presents
Colleen M. Flood
Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Using the Charter to Privatize Medicare
Commentator:
Y.Y. Brendon Chen
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
12:30 – 2:00
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Solarium (room FA2) – Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park
Constitutional challenges to public Medicare have been initiated in three provinces. The most aggressive challenge in British Columbia has stalled and settlement negotiations are underway. In this presentation I will describe the BC litigation and analyze what it portends for the future of public Medicare. I will also contrast Charter challenges to privatize public Medicare with Charter challenges to government cutbacks for refugees, and why the former is more likely to succeed than the latter. Finally, I will compare Canada’s stance with respect to the justiciability of health human rights with other jurisdictions and discuss the findings of our recent book as to whether the litigation of health care rights is a force for good or ill.
Colleen M. Flood is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa and inaugural director of the Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy & Ethics. From 2000 to 2014 she was a Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. She was Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute for Health Services and Policy Research 2006-2010. She is the author/editor of seven books including Administrative Law in Context (Emond Montgomery, 2008) (co-edited with Lorne Sossin), Exploring Social Insurance: Can a Dose of Europe Cure Canadian Health Care Finance? (McGill-Queen’s, 2008) (co-edited with Mark Stabile and Carolyn Tuohy), Canadian Health Law and Policy (3rd edition) (co-edited with J. Downie & T. Caulfield) (LexisNexis, 2007), Just Medicare: What’s In, What’s Out, How We Decide (editor) (Toronto: UTP, 2006); Access to Justice, Access to Care: The Legal Debate over Private Health Insurance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) (co-edited with Kent Roach and Lorne Sossin) and International Health Care Reform: A Legal, Economic and Political Analysis (Routledge: London, 2000). Her most recent book is with Aeyal Gross, The Right To Health At The Public/Private Divide (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Co-sponsored by the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights
A light lunch will be served.
For more information about this workshop, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.
