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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Health Care Lessons from Australia

   This paper is the first in a series that examines the way health services are funded and delivered in other nations. The nations profiled all aim to achieve the noble goal of Canada?s health care system: access to high quality care regardless of ability ...

5. Long waits and queue jumping go hand in hand

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald The idea that some Albertans might be getting their publicly-funded health care more rapidly than others because of who they happen to be, or who they know, or indeed if they have greater ability to pay, seems to have ...