Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
“What is In and Out of Medicare? Who Decides?” (with Mark Stabile and Carolyn Tuohy) in Just Medicare (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006). PR. 27 pages “The most important issue facing Canadian health care today is access to services. But who decides what services will be publicly funded, and how? The essays in Just Medicare explore the diverse means by which law influences what should and should not be...
Presentation to the Canadian Association of University Women, on the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Chaoulli. January 14, 2006.
Presentation at the Centre for Constitutional Studies and the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, “Courting Trouble: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of Private Health Insurance”. November 24, 2005, Edmonton, Alberta
Presentation on the Chaoulli decision at the Medical Reform Group, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. November 14, 2005, Toronto, Ontario.
Invited to be the after-dinner speaker at the Association of Canadian Academic healthcare Organizations, Fall Invitation Conference on “Courting Trouble: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of Private Health Insurance.” November 3-4, 2005, Westin Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario.
Historically, the Supreme Court of Canada has avoided direct intervention in health care policy-making. This posture changed dramatically with the release of the Chaoulli decision in June 2005. In a narrow four-to-three decision, the Supreme Court struck down Quebec laws prohibiting the sale of private health insurance on the basis that they violate Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. Three of the four judges in the majority also found...
Presentation at the Osgoode Professional Development Conference: Chaoulli and the Restructuring of Health Care in Canada. October 26, 2005, Toronto, Ontario.
Colleen M. Flood and Greg Hinds, “You can appeal long wait times” (2005) Toronto Star. The recent Supreme Court decision involving a Quebec patient’s right to seek private care has sparked debate on the role of the private sector in medicare. But an important aspect of that decision has been overlooked, namely the ability of Canadians to appeal long wait times or a decision not to fund a new treatment.
Colleen M. Flood, “Will private health insurance deliver?” (2005) Toronto Star.
Invited presentations to the Ministry of Health, May 25, 2005, Auckland, New Zealand: a. “A Tale of Toronto: National and International Lessons in Public Health Governancefrom the SARS Crisis” b. “Rights and Rationing in Health Care: A Canadian Story” c. “What’s In and Out of the Medicare Basket”
