February 2000 - Contents
	Features
Martin Zelder	Canadian Health Reformers Should Understand RAND If Canadian politicians were serious about health care reform, they'd study the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, which examines how people are affected by health service charges.
Michael Taube	Breaking the Code in the Health Care Debate This author reviews David Gratzer's new book, Code Blue, which digs deep to analyze the problems in the health care system.
David Gratzer	Real Health Care Reform Begins With Choice Medicare delivers poor care to patients, so we need to change it. These problems arise because health care is run by the government. Other countries have ideas for us.
Martin Zelder	The Ultimate Health Care Reform Were a province to violate the CHA, what would be the price paid? Not as much as you might think. In fact, at present, Alberta and Ontario could gain financially.
	Articles
Filip Palda	Tobacco Ads Come 20 Years Late Health Canada may be against smoking. But surely a government that really cared about public health would not be so particular in its choice of which dangerous habits to tax.
Andrew Kosnaski	The Spending while Saving Conundrum We all know the federal deficit has been eliminated. But how was it done? We might think drastic spending cuts did the job; this author has a different story.
Gordon Gibson	What's in a Name? Many of the words used in the dialogue on aboriginal/non-aboriginal relations are barriers to understanding, and serve to mislead both the listener and the speaker.
Lydia Miljan	What is an Ethical Investor to Do? Since August 1999, Talisman Energy has been the subject of a divestment campaign by the American Anti-slavery Group. How is the media handling this sensitive issue?
Jock Finlayson	Whither the Trade Unions? The trade union movement in Canada is in decline and a number of trends have conspired to bring about this decline. This author comments on a few of them.
Joel Emes	February Questions and Answers and February Graph The author examines part-time and full-time job growth rates.
Jason Clemens & Patrick Basham	Banking on Creative Destruction A century of technological innovation has not convinced everyone of the long-term benefits of creative destruction. The financial services sector is a prime example.
Owen Lippert	They're New, They Aren't Obvious, But They Sure Are Useful A new Fraser Institute book provides public policy advice as well as intellectual and economic arguments for the increased protection of intellectual property.
Chris Sarlo	Social Activists and Poverty The rate of poverty, anti-poverty activists tell us, is higher now than it was 20 years ago. Unfortunately, the way they are measuring poverty is badly flawed. Here's why.
Kristin McCahon	Editor's Notes

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