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1. Ontario's health care system needs more than Band-Aid solutions

   Appeared in the National Post This week, Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews published her plan for controlling provincial government health spending. While the Minister is correct when she says the growth of provincial health care spending is not ...

2. Creativity and innovation needed from provincial health ministers

   Appeared in Okanagan Saturday When provincial and territorial health ministers recently met in Halifax to discuss the 2004 federal-provincial-territorial agreement on health transfers, which is set to expire in 2014, the resulting news reports simply ...

3. Solving Ontario's health spending dilemma- Appeared in the Sudbury Star

   Appeared in the Sudbury Star With a provincial election approaching in Ontario, a recent Nanos poll shows that health care remains the most important issue for the majority of voters. The second and third most important issues are the economy and high ...

4. Canada's health care crisis is an economics problem, not a management problem

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, New Brunswick Telegraph Journal and Prince Albert Daily Herald, April 20, 2011 Government health spending is growing at unsustainable rates, while patients are facing shortages of medical resources and declining access to ...

5. Questioning success on health care wait times

   Appeared in the National Post A Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) study recently reported that wait times for access to health care across a few priority treatment areas are improving. According to CIHI, “at least 8 out of 10 Canadian ...

6. 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 ...

7. Misinformation and Wishful Thinking about Medicare's Sustainability

   In July 2007, the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) published articles by Irfan Dhalla (2007) and François Béland (2007) denying that the growth of government health expenditures observed in Canada is unsustainable. Methodological and conceptual ...

8. 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 ...