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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. 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. 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 ...

4. How France embraces the private sector to deliver universal health care

   Canadians keen on improving the state of our universal health-care system would do well to consider the case of France. Like Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland, the French health-care system is yet another ...

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. Waiting for Health Care: A Terrible and Treatable Disease

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, LaPresse, Whitehorse Daly Star, and Flin Flon Reminder Waiting has become a defining characteristic of the Canadian health care experience. Patients stricken with illness, from mild to serious, must wait their turn for ...

7. Muddled medical thinking and a meddlesome Alberta doctor

   Appeared in the National Post and Calgary Herald One irony of Canadian life is that the most economically free province in the country, Alberta, often has government policy that is the most hostile to private health care. Another irony, this time right ...

8. Despite spending $134 billion more, health care waits remain

     In most places, if you spend more, you receive more in goods or services. The glaring exception is Canada's government-run health care system. Consider this fact: Canada's provinces spent $134 billion more on health care between 2004 and 2012 ...

9. Fraser Forum- May/June 2013: Value for money in health care: Varying performances across Canada

   In this issue: Balanced budget in BC comes with short- and long-term pain by Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, and Milagros Palacios BC Liberals have put an emphasis on balancing the budget over the next year. BC’s Prosperity Fund: A good idea if designed ...

10. How about a holiday from Canada's health care straitjacket?

    Appeared in the Vancouver Sun and Winnipeg Free Press For many Canadians, the Victoria Day long weekend marks the beginning of summertime holiday planning, if not a late May escape after a long winter. For those who travel outside of the country in the ...