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1. Understanding Universal Health Care Reform Options: Activity-Based Funding

   Hospital care in Canada’s provinces today is predominantly funded on a global budget or block-grant basis, under which hospitals receive an allocation of funds each fiscal year to look after patients. An alternative approach—one that has been adopted by ...

2. Hospital reform would improve care for Canadian patients

   Our current system disconnects funding from the volume and quality of services. ...

3. Money Following Patients: A Better Way to Pay for Universally Accessible Hospital Care

   Main Conclusions Over the last 30 years, nearly all of the world’s developed nations with universally accessible health-care systems have moved to at least partially having money follow patients for hospital care, and away from the global-budget approach ...

4. Court ruling locks patients into government-run health care

   More than one million patients in Canada waited almost 20 weeks (on average) for medically necessary care last year. ...

5. Provincial Drug Coverage for Vulnerable Canadians

   Access to pharmaceuticals is a critical component of a properly functioning health care system. The reality that some Canadians have difficulty paying for their medications, combined with unqualified claims regarding Canada’s approach towards drug ...

6. Ottawa’s rules make health care worse

   Appeared in the Moncton Times-Transcript, May 18, 2018 What makes health care in our country uniquely Canadian? It’s certainly not the goal to ensure universal access to care regardless of ability to pay. That goal is shared by at least 28 other high ...

7. Is the Canada Health Act a Barrier to Reform?

   Despite spending more on health care than the majority of developed countries with universal-access health-care systems, Canada performs poorly in international comparisons of the performance of health systems. Canada’s health policies also differ from ...

8. Canadian health care—big bills, terrible system

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Sun, March 31, 2018 Canadians are getting a raw deal when it comes to health care. Compared to other countries that share the noble goal of access to care regardless of ability to pay, we have significantly fewer physicians, acute ...

9. How Canadian Health Care Differs from Other Systems

   Canada has one of the most expensive universal health-care systems in the developed world. However, there is an imbalance between the value Canadians receive and the relatively high amount of money they spend on their health-care system. Of particular ...

10. Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Use and Public Attitudes 1997, 2006, and 2016

    Conventional medicine’s ability to deal with and treat pain and disease continues to progress thanks to changes in medical practice and the introduction of new medical and pharmaceutical technologies. At the same time, the public’s knowledge about what ...