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1. Wait times—the other health-care crisis

   The elective surgery queue cost 1.2 million Canadians a total of $2.8 billion in lost wages and productivity. ...

2. COVID creating a backlog of cancelled elective surgeries in Canada

   The COVID-19 crisis has led many provinces to take drastic measures to both limit the spread of virus and ensure scarce medical resources are available in the event of a surge in cases. One of these measures involves the cancellation of ...

3. Other universal health-care countries allow private health insurance—and have shorter wait times

   A new study by the Fraser Institute details how Canada is one of the only high-income countries in the world that does not embrace private insurers for medically necessary care. Importantly, each of the 16 countries examined share Canada ...

4. The ordeals of Canadian health care

   Richard Zeckhauser is Harvard through and through. He is Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He got a Harvard A.B. (what everybody else calls a B.A.) in 1962, summa cum laude no ...

5. Timely health care—there’s an app for that!

   There’s been much discussion recently about the results of a new survey examining the impact of technology on health care. Conducted by Ipsos-Reid, the findings suggest that Canadians—particularly younger Canadians—are eager to adopt new ...

6. Cracking down on private clinics means cracking down on patients in need

   British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix’s recent announcement, which threatened large fines for doctors accepting private payment for treatments covered by Medicare (extra-billing), suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of the ...

7. Where patients are prisoners to bureaucratic will

   It has been well-established that, despite spending more on health care than the majority of developed countries that seek to provide universal access regardless of a patient’s ability to pay, Canada performs poorly on a number of key ...

8. Merkel should stand her ground and protect German health care

   As German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives face tough negotiations with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to maintain what has been termed the “grand coalition,” the future of Germany’s health-care system hangs in the balance. In ...

9. Canada’s health minister is right about one thing—there’s lots of work to do

   “Moving up the rank, one step at a time #muchmoretodo.” Those are the words Dr. Jane Philpott, Canada’s health minister (pictured above), tweeted upon the recent release of the Commonwealth Fund’s international ranking of health-care ...

10. The patience of Canadian patients is wearing thin

    A new survey by Angus Reid suggests the patience Canadians are famous for may be wearing thin—at least when it comes to wait times for medical treatment. The survey collected responses from 1,500 Canadians who received orthopaedic ...