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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Set aside ideology and take real look at European health care

   Appeared in the Huffington Post Professor Colleen Flood’s recent column in Globe Debate (Canada should look to Europe on health care, not the U.S) got the title right – but just about everything else wrong. Canadians would indeed benefit from a look at ...

6. Time to reform the Canada Health Act

   Appeared in the National Post With rumoured spending cuts in the upcoming federal budget, look for the Conservatives to play up one area of spending they’ve committed to increasing: health care transfers to the provinces. Last December, Finance Minister ...

7. Canadian Federal Health Transfers to the Provinces, 2012 edition

   Canada?s federal government sends cash transfers to the provinces to help pay for health care. Under the current arrangement regarding cash transfers, the federal government has committed to increasing its cash transfers for health care by 6 percent ...

8. The BC Government is Eroding Patients' and Physicians' Rights

   An Abridged Version Appeared in The Province, December 10, 2003 On November 17, British Columbia’s provincial government proposed several new amendments to the Medicare Protection Act. According to the news release, the goal is to protect patients from ...