Canada’s Health Care “Crisis”: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Neoliberal Fix

Whiteside, Heather

doi:10.1080/19187033.2009.11675047

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“…Even so, their lived impacts across the sub-communities and sociodemographic groups within them may be more mixed. In the new milieu of rights-based activism, greater social inclusion in the form of same-sex marriage, pension, and adoption rights was pursued in the federal courts, while conservativeled regional governments (e.g., Ontario's Harris administration during the 1990s and early 2000s) and federal government (the Harper administration since 2006) disinvested in health and social services infrastructure geared toward vulnerable and minority groups (Hackworth, 2008;Whiteside, 2009). Sustained, grassroots LGBT movements in large cities (e.g., Toronto) have effectively resisted the trend of rollback neoliberal governance in Canada, running services through critical masses of volunteers, in-kind donations, and petitions for public funding.…”

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confidence: 99%

Community Cleavages: Gay and Bisexual Men’s Perceptions of Gay and Mainstream Community Acceptance in the Post-AIDS, Post-Rights Era

Lewis

Bauer

Coleman

et al. 2015

Journal of Homosexuality

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Changes in gay and bisexual men’s connectedness to the gay community are related to the declining public visibility of HIV/AIDS and greater acceptance for homosexuality and bisexuality in mainstream society. Little work, however, has focused on perceived acceptance for subgroups within the gay community or broader society. Using interviews (n = 20) and a survey (n = 202) of gay and bisexual men in a mid-sized Canadian city, we find perceived hierarchies of acceptance for the various subgroups as well as an age effect wherein middle-aged men perceive the least acceptance for all groups. These differences are linked with the uneven impact of social, political, and institutional changes relevant to gay and bisexual men in Canada.

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Section: Discussion and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Cleavages: Gay and Bisexual Men’s Perceptions of Gay and Mainstream Community Acceptance in the Post-AIDS, Post-Rights Era

Lewis

Bauer

Coleman

et al. 2015

Journal of Homosexuality

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“…4 But, even before the crisis, UHC was under threat in some HICs due to on-going neoliberal restructuring, the use of public-private partnerships, and the rise of commodification of health care. 4,5 These trends have led some to argue that, rather than progressing, UHC is increasingly under attack and in actual decline in some HICs, especially in Europe. 6…”

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Monitoring Frameworks for Universal Health Coverage: What About High-Income Countries?

Bergen

Rückert

Labonté

2019

Int J Health Policy Manag

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Implementing universal health coverage (UHC) is widely perceived to be central to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and is a work program priority of the World Health Organization (WHO). Much has already been written about how low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can monitor progress towards UHC, with various UHC monitoring frameworks available in the literature. However, we suggest that these frameworks are largely irrelevant in high-income contexts and that the international community still needs to develop UHC monitoring framework meaningful for high-income countries (HICs). As a first step, this short communication presents preliminary findings from a literature review and document analysis on how various countries monitor their own progress towards achieving UHC. It furthermore offers considerations to guide meaningful UHC monitoring and reflects on pertinent challenges and tensions to inform future research on UHC implementation in HIC settings.

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“…No doubt governments and organizations continue to pass regulations and policies, and in so doing employ discourses, that contribute to the ‘passive privatization’ of the system (Bhatia, 2010; Sonnen and McCracken, 1999; Whiteside, 2009). Healthcare has been a central regulatory concern for governments since the 1990s due to its major financial expenditure of public budgets and a wavering commitment to welfarism (Graefe, 2018; Marmor, 1999; Whiteside, 2009, 2015). But more recently, the claim to a right to healthcare constitutes a new force that threatens the core underlying principles of public healthcare.…”

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Towards a Post-Social Right to Life, Liberty and Security of the Person Through Markets? Conceptions of Citizenship and the Implications for Health Law as Governance

Guebert

2019

Social & Legal Studies

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In the context of increased expectations of healthcare services and fiscal pressures, rights claims constitute a force pushing for privatization and thus threaten Canada’s single-tier public system. This article introduces the concept of a ‘post-social right’ to understand the current legal effort to enforce a right to healthcare derivative of section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Commonly considered as a ‘negative’ right, I suggest that the right also has positive capacity. Rather than simply protecting against unjust state intervention, section 7 claims valorize a particular mode of sustaining life, liberty and security of the person according to neo-liberal principles. A right to markets in healthcare aligns health law with the logic of prudentialism as a technology of governance. As the enforceability of the right expands and strengthens, health law as governance operates to normalize market solutions to health matters. It follows that a form of two-tier citizenship arises, dividing ‘activated’ citizens from the ‘inactive’.

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Canada’s Health Care “Crisis”: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Neoliberal Fix

Cited by 21 publications

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Community Cleavages: Gay and Bisexual Men’s Perceptions of Gay and Mainstream Community Acceptance in the Post-AIDS, Post-Rights Era

Community Cleavages: Gay and Bisexual Men’s Perceptions of Gay and Mainstream Community Acceptance in the Post-AIDS, Post-Rights Era

Monitoring Frameworks for Universal Health Coverage: What About High-Income Countries?

Towards a Post-Social Right to Life, Liberty and Security of the Person Through Markets? Conceptions of Citizenship and the Implications for Health Law as Governance

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