Health Care Financing and Funding

Publications authored by CHSPR faculty and staff from 2009 to the present are listed here. Older peer-reviewed publications are usually available from individual journals and can be searched for using PubMed. Older reports published by CHSPR (from 1973) are available from the UBC Library cIRcle database. If you cannot find a specific publication, please contact us.


Sutherland JM, Fisher ES, Skinner JS. Getting past denial--the high cost of health care in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2009 Sep 24;361(13):1227-30. Read more

McGrail K. Value for money: making Canadian health care stronger. Toronto (ON): Health Council of Canada; Feb 2009. Read more

Morgan S. Prescription drug financing. In: Lu M, Jonsson E, editors. Financing health care: new ideas for a changing society. Weinheim (Germany): Wiley-Blackwell; 2008. 81-104. Read more

McGrail K. Medicare financing and redistribution in british columbia, 1992 and 2002. Healthc Policy. 2007 May;2(4):123-37. Read more

McGrail KM, McGregor MJ, Cohen M, Tate RB, Ronald LA. For-profit versus not-for-profit delivery of long-term care. CMAJ. 2007 Jan 2;176(1):57-8. Read more

Barer ML, Evans RG. Health care in Canada: organization, financing and access. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; June 2001. Read more

Barer ML, Evans RG, Hertzman C, Johri M. Lies, damned lies, and health care zombies: discredited ideas that will not die. Houston (TX): University of Texas-Houston Health Policy Institute; Mar 1998. Read more