Just Medicare : What's in, What's Out, How We Decide.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Constitutional and Administrative Law Challenges to the Boundaries of Medicare -- 1 What Is In and Out of Medicare? Who Decides? -- 2 Charter Challenges and Evidence-Based Decision-Making in the Health Care System: Towards a Symbiotic Relationship -- 3 Misdiagnosis or Cure? Charter Review of the Health Care System -- 4 Claiming Equity and Justice in Health: The Role of the South African Right to Health in Ensuring Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment -- Part Two: Access to Abortion and Reproductive Health Services -- 5 Abortion Denied: Bearing the Limits of Law -- 6 Protecting Fairness in Women's Health: The Case of Emergency Contraception -- 7 Achieving Reproductive Rights: Access to Emergency Oral Contraception and Abortion in Quebec -- Part Three: Access for the Vulnerable: Case Studies from Aboriginal Health and Mental Health -- 8 Jurisdictional Roulette: Constitutional and Structural Barriers to Aboriginal Access to Health -- 9 The Rural Aboriginal Health Gap: The Romanow Solutions? -- 10 Access to Treatment of Serious Mental Illness: Enabling Choice or Enabling Treatment? -- Part Four: Rationing Access: The Role of the Physician Gatekeeper -- 11 The Legal Regulation of Referral Incentives: Physician Kickbacks and Physician Self-Referral -- 12 The Costs of Avoiding Physician Conflicts of Interest: A Cautionary Tale of Gainsharing Regulation -- Part Five: Free Trade Agreements: Strengthening or Undermining Access to Health Care? -- 13 The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Its Implications for Health Care -- 14 Patient Mobility in the European Union -- Part Six: Manufacturing Demand for Access: The Role of the Media and the Commercialization of Research.

15 The Power of Illusion and the Illusion of Power: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Canadian Health Care -- 16 The Media, Marketing, and Genetic Services -- 17 Commercialized Medical Research and the Need for Regulatory Reform -- 18 Grasping the Nettle: Confronting the Issue of Competing Interests and Obligations in Health Research Policy -- Conclusion -- Contributors.

Just Medicareillustrates that legal scholars can also contribute to the issue of how to allocate scarce health resources by determining what constitutes fair processes for decision-making, and by challenging unjust processes.

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