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1. Embracing the private sector to deliver universal health care in B.C.

   Appeared in the Huffington Post, June 15, 2015 British Columbia’s health ministry recently announced it will invest $10 million to increase surgical capacity, with an eye on reducing wait times. Part of the plan involves contracting some surgeries out to ...

2. Muddled medical thinking and a meddlesome Alberta doctor

   Appeared in the National Post and Calgary Herald One irony of Canadian life is that the most economically free province in the country, Alberta, often has government policy that is the most hostile to private health care. Another irony, this time right ...

3. How Private Hospital Competition Can Improve Canadian Health Care

   The Alberta proposal raises three issues. First, do for-profit hospitals perform better than non-profit ones? Second, do private hospitals (either for-profit or non-profit) perform better than government-run (public) ones? Third, does intensified ...