Province of British Columbia
40th Parliament – 2013
Select Standing Committee on Health
INDEX

Malthus, Thomas Robert

Economic theories (Anis, A.) 3:1435-1440
Medical Care Act (federal)

Provisions (Morgan, S.) 3:0935-0940
Medical errors See Health – Health care system
Medical Services Commission

Role and responsibilities (Davidson, H.) 4:0920-0925
Medical Services Plan of British Columbia

Plan (Davidson, H.) 4:0910
Medicare Protection Act

Purpose (Davidson, H.) 4:0920-0925
Medications See Drugs – Prescription drugs
Members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

Constituency offices, information on PharmaCare program (Walman, B.) 4:1110
Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies See Pharmaceutical industry
Mental health

Deinstitutionalization of mentally ill (Goldsmith, L.) 3:1130
Dual diagnosis See Mental illness and addiction above under this main heading
Mental health plan (Davidson, H.) 4:0950
Mental illness and addiction
housing needs of mentally ill and addicted (Anis, A.) 3:1435
treatment services (Davidson, H.) 4:0935, 4:0950-0955
treatment services and patient flow models (Anis, A.) 3:1435
Prescription drug coverage for mental illness (Walman, B.) 4:1120-1125
Programs and services, access to primary care (Davidson, H.) 4:1005, 4:1015 (Hammell) 4:1015
Programs and services, access to primary care and impact of government policies (Goldsmith, L.) 3:1125-1130
Methadone maintenance therapy See Treatment services under Substance abuse and addiction
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Presentation by public health researcher See Finegood, Diane
Canadian health care system conference in Vancouver (Morgan, S.) 3:1010
Hosting of conference on physician payment models (Letnick) 2:1450
Work of organization (Finegood, D.) 3:0905-0910
Work of organization, work on long-term care issues (Finegood, D.) 3:1035
Work on health care system and research (Finegood, D.) 3:1520
MLAs See Members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Moneo, Mitch

Presentation to committee on behalf of Health Ministry 4:1115, 4:1130-1135
Botox, coverage under Pharmacare program 4:1145
Drugs, prescription drugs
price regulation 4:1130
prices and cost management 4:1130-1135
generic drugs 4:1130
high-cost and specialty drugs 4:1130
PharmaCare program
coverage
enhanced coverage for persons born before 1940 4:1115
income-based coverage and deductibles 4:1115
Fair PharmaCare plan 4:1115
low-cost alternative drug program 4:1130
reference drug program 4:1130-1135
regular, partial and limited coverage 4:1130
special authority program 4:1145
Pharmaceutical Services Act
regulations 4:1130
Seniors
prescription drug coverage 4:1115
Morbidity See Health
Morgan, Steven

Presentations to committee 3:0910-1040, 3:1220-1335
As subject
recommendations on prescription drug coverage policies 3:1310-1320
role in Romanow commission 3:1310
AIDS, drug treatment and research 3:1335
Alberta, health care system 3:0930
Armed forces
enlisting and conscription 3:0925
veteran care, federal responsibilities 3:0925
Asia-Pacific region, pharmacy services, role of physicians 3:1320
Australia, health care system 3:1235
Beveridge, William, report on welfare state in U.K. 3:0930
B.C. Cancer Agency, drug treatment programs 3:1335
B.C., rural B.C., physician supply, incentives 3:1000-1005, 3:1040
British North America Act, provisions 3:0920-0925
Canada, federal government, revenue sources 3:0920, 3:0930
Canada Health Act (federal)
implementation and language, "physician services" 3:0945-0950
provisions on coverage of services 3:1325
provisions on health care funding 3:1230
Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, potential impact on prescription drug costs 3:1330
Canadian Institute for Health Information
report on health care system benchmarking 3:1010-1015
website on health care system 3:1015
Canadian Medical Association, membership 3:1030
Cancer, drug treatment 3:1330-1335
Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (Romanow Commission), recommendations, implementation 3:0955, 3:1310, 3:1320, 3:1330
Conference Board of Canada, report on provincial health care systems, report card format 3:1005-1010
Constitution Act, provisions on health care responsibilities 3:0920-0925
Dental care, public and private spending 3:0920, 3:0940, 3:1015
Douglas, Tommy, work on health care system 3:0930-0935
Drugs, prescription drugs
accessibility and affordability, access for persons with high care needs or need for high-cost drugs 3:1300
accessibility and affordability, impact on health status and outcomes 3:1255, 3:1310-1315, 3:1335
costs and spending
impact of demographic trends 3:1300-1305
public and private spending 3:1300-1305
role of prescribing and usage patterns 3:1305
coverage models
age-based model 3:1305
compulsory insurance model 3:1255, 3:1305
coverage for drugs of known benefit 3:1310, 3:1320
coverage for particular income thresholds 3:1250-1300
coverage for particular social groups 3:1250
coverage programs
comparisons among jurisdictions 3:1250-1305, 3:1315, 3:1330-1335
employer programs 3:1255
formularies of eligible drugs 3:1325-1335
governance 3:1335
issues 3:1305-1310
deductibles and private insurance costs 3:1250-1305
dispensing of drugs, role of pharmacists and physicians 3:1320
electronic prescription and drug information systems 3:1315, 3:1325
prescribers, education and information 3:1315-1320
prescribers, education and information, academic and industry detailing 3:1320-1325
prices and cost management
"biologic" drugs 3:1330
comparisons among jurisdictions 3:1315-1320, 3:1335
comparisons among jurisdictions, studies 3:1315-1320
generic drugs 3:1305-1320, 3:1330-1335
high-cost and specialty drugs 3:1305-1310
national purchasing strategy proposal 3:1310-1315
patented drugs 3:1330
purchasing contracts with drug manufacturers 3:1305-1320
public and private spending 3:0920, 3:0940, 3:0955, 3:1005
research and development, investment 3:1335
review process 3:1335
Drummond, Don, comments on health care system 3:1005
First Nations, federal government responsibilities 3:0925
Germany, health care system 3:0915-0920
Government, revenue sources 3:0925-0930
Health
health status and outcomes in B.C. 3:1015
health status and outcomes, role of investments in education, housing, social services and public health 3:0910
insurance
community-rating of premiums 3:1235-1240
compulsory participation 3:1235
history 3:0930-0945
insurance and insurance risk, comparison to non-health systems 3:1235-1240, 3:1300
insurance providers, regulation and role of government 3:1240-1245
voluntary private insurance 3:1230-1235
policy 3:0910
Health, continuing and long-term care
system, impact of demographic trends and need for expansion 3:1005
system, integrated system 3:1035
Health, health authorities
role in health system reforms 3:1325-1330
Health, health care facilities and hospitals
naval hospitals 3:0925
Health, health care funding
health care financing concept 3:1220-1230, 3:1245
sources of funding 3:1220-1225
system models 3:0910-0920
transfer payments from federal government
2014 health accord renewal 3:1030
block transfer tied to GDP for provinces 3:0940-0950
Canada health and social transfer 3:0950-0955
federal cost-sharing program 3:0930-0935
health accords 3:1000
Health, health care system
accessibility 3:0940-0945
access for vulnerable persons and persons with high care needs 3:1230-1250
patient costs as barrier to access 3:1230
beds, usage and impact of health system reforms 3:1325
beds, use of acute care beds by seniors in need of long-term care 3:1005, 3:1020, 3:1035
challenges and opportunities 3:1000-1005
comparison with other jurisdictions 3:1230-1245
comparisons among jurisdictions
coverage of health care system components 3:1010-1015
format and report-card model 3:1010-1015
studies 3:0910-0920, 3:1010
costs and spending
comparisons among jurisdictions 3:0915-0920
compression of morbidity theory 3:1020
costs and spending 3:1005
management 3:1230
public and private spending 3:0920, 3:1230-1250, 3:1325
salvage hypothesis 3:1020
diagnostic services, government funding 3:0930-0935
diagnostic services, private spending and queue-jumping issue 3:1040
e-health systems 3:1315, 3:1325
end-of-life care, costs 3:1020
federal-provincial responsibilities 3:0925-0945
health maintenance organizations, role 3:1005
human resources strategy 3:1000
impact of demographic trends and sustainability 3:1005, 3:1020, 3:1300-1305
patient costs and user fees 3:0945
policy, history 3:0910-1000
primary health care, service delivery 3:0955, 3:1325
reforms, analysis of goals 3:1245-1250
reforms, relationship to supply and demand for services 3:1245
regionalization, role of regional boards 3:0950-0955, 3:1330-1335
spending reductions in 1990s 3:0950
system
expansion 3:1025
history 3:0910-1000, 3:1025-1030, 3:1245-1250
integrated system 3:1025-1030
market health care model 3:0915-0920, 3:1230-1235
parallel private insurance models 3:1250
public health care model 3:0910-0915, 3:1230
public health insurance model 3:0915-0920, 3:1230
social health insurance model 3:0915-0920, 3:0935, 3:1235-1245, 3:1255
wait-lists and waiting times
queue-jumping 3:1040
targets 3:1000
Health, public health
government investment and support 3:0910
Health Services Review, report on national-provincial health program 3:0945, 3:1230
Home care and home support services
demographic trends and need for expansion of services 3:1005
public and private spending 3:0940, 3:0955
Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act (federal), provisions 3:0930-0940
Insurance, social insurance systems 3:1235-1240
Japan, prescription drug coverage and spending 3:1335
Medical Care Act (federal), provisions 3:0935-0940
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Canadian health care system conference in Vancouver 3:1010
National Forum on Health, recommendations 3:0955
Netherlands
health care system 3:1240
prescription drug coverage and spending 3:1255-1300
New Zealand, prescription drug prices and cost management 3:1315-1320, 3:1330-1335
Ontario
health care system 3:0955, 3:1005
prescription drug coverage and spending 3:1250
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, health database 3:1010-1015
Pensions, health benefits and prescription drug coverage 3:1305
PharmaCare program
coverage, amounts and deductible 3:1250-1300
coverage for drugs of known benefit 3:1310-1320
expansion 3:1310
Fair PharmaCare plan 3:1250, 3:1300-1305
reform 3:1325-1335
reform and public information 3:1315-1325
Pharmaceutical industry
investment in prescription drug research and development 3:1335
lobbying of MLAs 3:1335
Pharmaceutical Policy Research Collaboration, website information 3:1315
Physicians
payment models
direct billing and extra billing 3:1245-1250
independent business model 3:0915, 3:0935-0945, 3:1025-1030
response by physicians 3:0935-0940, 3:1030, 3:1245-1250, 3:1330
prescription of drugs 3:1325
role in health care system 3:0945-0950, 3:1005, 3:1030
services, coverage of medically necessary services 3:1325
supply, specialists 3:1000, 3:1245
training for medical students from rural communities 3:1005
Picard, André, comments on health care legislation 3:0935
Quebec, prescription drug coverage and spending 3:1255-1305
Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations (Rowell-Sirois Commission), recommendations on federal government responsibilities 3:0930
Royal Commission on Health Services (Hall Commission), recommendations on health care system 3:0935-0940
St. Paul's Hospital, B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, drug treatment and research programs 3:1335
Saskatchewan, health care system 3:0930-0935
Seniors, prescription drug coverage 3:1300-1305
Sinclair, Duncan, role in Ontario health care system 3:0955
Taxation, tax reductions 3:0955-1000
Therapeutic devices, public and private spending 3:0920
Trudeau, Pierre, actions re transfer payments from federal government 3:0940
U.K.
health care system 3:0910-0915, 3:0930, 3:1015, 3:1330
prescription drug coverage and spending 3:1255-1300, 3:1330-1335
U.S.
Depression era, impact 3:0925-0930
health care reforms and legislation 3:0915, 3:1230, 3:1240, 3:1250
health care system 3:0915-0920
Mortality rates See Health
Motions and resolutions

Motion to delegate to Chair and Deputy Chair the request to staff for research on health outcomes, approved 1:1130
Motion to elect Chair, approved 1:1100
Motion to elect Deputy Chair, approved 1:1105
MSP See Medical Services Plan of British Columbia

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