Rationale: Some commentators on global capital and health care markets predict that global health care firms will penetrate markets outside their main domiciles and overwhelm smaller, local health care providers, using superior access to capital, cross-border economies of scale and expertise in...

We analyze the gender impact of the current Canadian system of first-dollar health insurance by examining the use of physicians' services and acute-care hospital services in the Canadian province of Manitoba from April 1, 1997, to March 31, 1999. First, we describe the use by age and sex of...