By Rebecca Walberg
Director of Health Policy
Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Since the embrace of New Public Management in the 1980s in the public sectors of Canada, the US, Australia and the UK, the mantra of leaders throughout government has been “more with less.” A generation of government has attempted to reduce public spending, or at least to slow its growth, while providing excellent and increasingly accessible public services. In Canada, healthcare administration is the glaring exception to this trend.
