Fraser Forum Contents

	February 1999 - Contents

	Cover Stories
Martin Zelder	How Popular is Medicare? Three recent polls show that health care is no longer an institution beloved by all.
William McArthur, M.D	Making Hospitals Work for Patients In British Columbia, hospital care costs $1,009.96 for every man, woman, and child per year. Is this reasonable?
Michael Taube	Entrepreneurs Creating Health Care Choices A tale of 3 organizations devoted to helping people get prompt medical care in the US.
Martin Zelder	*Take a Queue* from Canada!** What does queue-jumping reveal about how the current health care system works?
	Articles
Filip Palda	Hunger Beneath the Stars Russia needs Western food aid, yet it is still funding space exploration. Why?
Herbert Grubel	Views of a Euro-Optimist Monetary unification will provide Europeans with large benefits, this author believes.
Lydia Miljan	Who Really was the 1998 “Newsmaker of the Year”? Just how well do journalists’ recollections meld with reality?
Joel Emes	February Questions and Answers
Joel Emes	February Graph
Herbert Grubel and Michael Walker	*Tax Relief without* Risk** The authors propose that fiscal surpluses be returned to taxpayers as cash rebates.
Johanna Francis	Canadians Show Their Generosity In 1996, the total amount of money donated to charities in Canada increased by 15 percent.
Dexter Samida	When Foreign Aid Doesn’t Foreign aid does little to help needy people. Africa’s Côte d’Ivoire is one such case.
Mary-Anne Sillamaa	Flatten the Tax, Fatten the Revenues? The good news and bad news behind Alberta’s flat tax proposal.
David Gratzer	Public Policy Hasn’t Helped the Homeless Homelessness is a fairly recent North American problem. Why has it arisen?
Chris Sarlo	Misconceptions about “Basic Needs” Poverty Lines There exists a fundamental misunderstanding of what basic needs represent, and great confusion about the purpose of a basic needs poverty line.
Owen Lippert	Elephants, CEO Hiring, and Adam Smith Is there a systematic way to understand the process of hiring CEOs?
Herbert Grubel	Benefiting from Capital Gains Tax Cuts The lock-in effect of capital gains taxes and the resultant economic losses are widespread in Canada. It could be fixed if Canada’s capital gains tax rate were lowered.