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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. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2016

     Comparing the performance of different countries’ health-care systems provides an op-portunity for policy makers and the general public to determine how well Canada’s health-care system is performing relative to its international peers. Overall, the ...

8. For-Profit Hospitals and Insurers in Universal Health Care Countries

   The poor access to medical services and middling outcomes and safety in Canada’s health-care system despite high spending suggest a need for reform of health-care policies. Yet, while Canadians seem open to the possibility of fundamental reform, faulty ...

9. Drug Coverage for low-income families: The Canadian Reality and Lessons from Switzerland and the Netherlands

   Modern medicines are essential for improving health outcomes, alleviating pain and suffering, increasing longevity, and reducing expenditures on other medical services. While there is merit to pursuing a policy that expands access to those in need, it ...

10. Health Care Lessons from the Netherlands

    The Dutch health care system is a high performing, equitable system in which wait times are not considered to be a problem. A careful examination of the Dutch health care system may provide insights to help inform the Canadian debate over the future of ...