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1. The expiry of the 2004 Canada health accord- What's all the fuss about?

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press The 2004 federal-provincial health accord recently completed its 10-year run, and expired on schedule. Though heralded at the time of its signing as a landmark agreement that would solve many of the wait times issues ...

2. Waiting for Health Care: A Terrible and Treatable Disease

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, LaPresse, Whitehorse Daly Star, and Flin Flon Reminder Waiting has become a defining characteristic of the Canadian health care experience. Patients stricken with illness, from mild to serious, must wait their turn for ...

3. Hate to (Br)eak it to you Walt, but it's pretty (Ba)d in Canada too

   Appeared in the Huffington Post, October 2013 The season finale of the popular U.S. drama Breaking Bad brought with it renewed interest in a viral internet meme that implicitly suggested that the entire story might not have taken place had the main ...

4. Summer health care forecast: Typical slowdown with risk of increased sluggishness

   Appeared in the Fredericton Gleaner, Sundre Round Up and Nelson Daily.com Get ready for Medicare’s annual summer slowdown, where the forecast calls for possibly poorer than usual service levels. Every year, provincial health care systems across Canada ...

5. How about a holiday from Canada's health care straitjacket?

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun and Winnipeg Free Press For many Canadians, the Victoria Day long weekend marks the beginning of summertime holiday planning, if not a late May escape after a long winter. For those who travel outside of the country in the ...

6. Long waits and queue jumping go hand in hand

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald The idea that some Albertans might be getting their publicly-funded health care more rapidly than others because of who they happen to be, or who they know, or indeed if they have greater ability to pay, seems to have ...

7. Lifting the veil on hospital performance

   Appeared in the Kelowna Daily Courier Last week the Canadian Institute for Health Information lifted the veil of secrecy surrounding the performance of Canadian hospitals with its Canadian Hospital Reporting Project, an interactive web site that measures ...

8. Hospital Report Card Alberta 2009

   The Fraser Institute's Hospital Report Card Alberta 2009 is constructed to help patients choose the best hospital for their inpatient care by providing them with information on the performance of acute-care hospitals in Alberta. https://www ...

9. Waiting Your Turn- Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada, 6th edition

   The current Critical Issues Bulletin is the Institute's sixth attempt to document the extent to which queues are being used as a means of adapting to the conflict between limited budgetary allocations and potentially unlimited demand for free health ...