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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. Canadian health care system provides poor value for tax dollars spent

   With the turning of the calendar to May, the effort to complete our income tax returns will slowly start to fade from memory. ...

4. Ontario's- pay more, get less- health care system

   Appeared in the Timmins Daily Press Facing a $16-billion deficit, the Ontario government announced it will stop funding a handful of medical services currently covered by the public health insurer. This should come as no surprise, as it has become the ...

5. Feds offer health ministers opportunity to enact real reform

   Appeared in the Edmonton Journal, Times Colonist, and Toronto Sun As the premiers meet this week in Victoria, a number of provinces are clearly distressed about the federal government’s plan to reduce the automatic annual increase in health transfers from ...

6. The Dollar Cost of Medicare(3)

   Appeared in the Lakeside Leader and Ponoka News The true cost of Medicare for individuals and families in Canada is often misunderstood, with many people thinking it’s either free or covered by our provincial health insurance premiums. This misconception ...

7. Government Health Care: Not the 11th Commandment

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Whenever talk of health care reform arises—and praise for European countries that combine universal coverage with more private sector involvement—a reflex inevitably kicks in. For some, it seems more privately-delivered or ...

8. Health Insurance and Bankruptcy Rates in Canada and the United States

   In a recent update to a previous study, Himmelstein et al (2009) concluded that in 2007, uninsured medical expenses or loss of income due to illness caused nearly two-thirds (62.1 percent) of all non-business bankruptcies in the United States. The authors ...

9. Long-term or Short-term, Public Health Insurance is Not Sustainable

   Since 2004, the Fraser Institute has annually published a measurement of the financial sustainability of public health insurance in Canada called Paying More, Getting Less. Since 2004, The Fraser Institute has annually published a measurement of the ...

10. The Fantasy of Reference Pricing and the Promise of Choice in BC's Pharmacare

    For defenders of government-run health care, the existence of provincial drug benefit plans is actually a blot on Canadian health care, in that they are not part of single-payer, first-dollar coverage, medicare (National Forum on Health, 1997:22). When ...