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1. Effect of Wait Times on Mortality in Canada

   Wait times for health care in Canada have lengthened considerably over the past two decades. Across 12 major medical specialties, the estimated typical wait time has risen from 9.3 weeks in 1993 to 18.2 weeks in 2013. These inordinately long waits, among ...

2. Health Care Lessons from Germany

   The German health care system has been recognized as one that provides good quality care with attentive service in which wait times are not considered to be a problem, as well as a system that rapidly adopts new medical innovations. A careful examination ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Despite spending $134 billion more, health care waits remain

     In most places, if you spend more, you receive more in goods or services. The glaring exception is Canada's government-run health care system. Consider this fact: Canada's provinces spent $134 billion more on health care between 2004 and 2012 ...

6. Unnecessary pain and suffering with a surprisingly large price tag

   Appeared in Hamilton Spectator and Huffington Post Many Canadians and commentators in other countries lauding Canada's government-dominated approach to health care refer to Canadian health care as "free." If healthcare actually was free, ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. Canadians paying high-end prices for bargain-basement health care

   Appeared in the National Post With the deadline for filing income tax returns now passed, some Canadians may still be in shock at the size of their tax bills while others no doubt find solace in the belief that their taxes help pay for a high quality ...

10. Health Care Lessons from Japan

    This paper focuses on the Japanese health care system which has been identified as a system that provides some of the best outcomes on an aggregate basis when compared with other developed nations that maintain universal approaches to health care ...