Riding the third rail : the story of Ontario's Health Services Restructuring Commission, 1996-2000 / by Duncan Sinclair, Mark Rochon, and Peggy Leatt.

Montréal : Institute for Research on Public Policy, [2005]

xx, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-288).

Ch. 1. Establishing the HSRC -- Ch. 2. The policy context -- Ch. 3. Voluntary governance -- Ch. 4. Hospital restructuring : the commission's power -- Ch. 5. Recommendations linked to hospital restructuring : constraints on power -- Ch. 6. The restructuring of a health-services system -- Ch. 7. The public relations challenge -- Ch. 8. Legal challenges -- Ch. 9. What happened, what didn't, what's next -- Ch. 10. Lessons learned -- Ch. 11. Implications for public policy -- Afterword : toward a genuine health care system.