Wasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. This seven-chapter book explores 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). The concluding chapter sums up the winners and losers in this system. A new Introduction by the authors thoroughly updates the subject.

This book is a classic study of the Canadian health care system, now reissued with a new Introduction by the authors. Provocative, thoughtful, and lively, the book has been hailed by reviewers and readers alike.