From Payer to Player: The Employer’s Role in the Canadian Health Care System

Canada’s health care system is changing. Why should employers care about these changes? What roles do they play now and what role should they, or will they, play in the health of Canadians and the health care system of the future?

Document Highlights

In an effort to answer key questions facing employers today, the Conference Board, with the support of several solutions-oriented pharmaceutical companies, launched the Partner in Change project. The goals of the project were:

• to provide a forum for employers to articulate their role in the health care system now and in the future;
• to develop suggestions for ways in which employers could move from talk to action in areas relating to health and health care; and
• to assist in the building of stronger linkages and better understanding among various stakeholders in the health care system.

The results of the Partner in Change project are presented in this report.