Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care

• Pat Armstrong & Hugh Armstrong
• Oxford UP, 2003
• Paperback, 272 pages
• 9780195417159

Wasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. It examines the development of the Canadian health care system, and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources); and who decides (public, private, and patients).