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Health Care Commentary Archive

Cost-sharing could improve patient accountability in Canada
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | March 27, 2023
Ottawa’s hostility toward private health care out of step with most Canadians
By Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | March 13, 2023
Despite high spending, Alberta’s health-care system is failing
By Tegan Hill, Mackenzie Moir | February 8, 2023
More private clinics will help Ontario—but province needs fundamental health-care reform
By Tegan Hill, Bacchus Barua | January 23, 2023
Alberta needs fundamental reform to tackle health-care wait times
By Tegan Hill, Bacchus Barua | January 18, 2023
Canada’s health-care wait times hit record high of 27.4 weeks
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | December 19, 2022
Despite high spending, Canada’s health-care system is failing badly
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | November 24, 2022
Alberta premier supports increased health transfers—and more reliance on Ottawa
By Bacchus Barua, Jake Fuss | November 9, 2022
Private contracts—one important step towards health-care reform
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | October 7, 2022
Overwhelming evidence—it’s time to fix Canadian health care
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | September 9, 2022
Average Canadian family will pay almost $16,000 for health care this year
By Bacchus Barua, Milagros Palacios | August 12, 2022
Alberta takes another step towards reducing health-care wait times
By Bacchus Barua | July 13, 2022
Patient ‘cost-sharing’ might help shorten wait times in Canada
By Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | June 23, 2022
B.C. can tackle health-care wait times by learning from more successful universal systems
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | June 15, 2022
Time to tackle health-care wait times in Canada
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | May 21, 2022
Long wait times for health care predated pandemic
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | April 27, 2022
Reform could shorten Nova Scotia’s brutal health-care wait times
By Mackenzie Moir, Alex Whalen, Bacchus Barua | April 25, 2022
Alberta’s health-care reforms don’t go far enough
By Bacchus Barua, Tegan Hill, Mackenzie Moir | March 9, 2022
Ontario government ties more red tape around long-term care
By Yanick Labrie | February 24, 2022
Unvaxxed Quebecers should pay portion of their health-care bill—so should everyone else
By Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | January 27, 2022
COVID exacerbates—not creates—Canada’s long health-care wait times
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | December 16, 2021
Canada’s health-care system—the status quo is unsustainable
By Bacchus Barua, Jake Fuss | November 17, 2021
COVID or not—Canada’s health-care system faces major challenges
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | November 10, 2021
Canada’s long-term care system lacks choice and competition
By Yanick Labrie | October 8, 2021
Campaign fearmongering on health care ignores experiences of other universal care countries
By Steven Globerman | September 14, 2021