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1. Kenney government postpones reforms despite COVID-related surgery backlog

   Appeared in the Edmonton Journal, June 18, 2020 Despite encouraging evidence from other jurisdictions, the Kenney government recently postponed its plan to expand the use of private medical clinics to perform publicly-funded surgeries. The plan mirrors a ...

2. Alberta should seek more autonomy in health care

   Appeared in National Newswatch, June 17, 2020 On Wednesday, Alberta’s “Fair Deal Panel” issued its report detailing 25 policy recommendations to expand the province’s influence within the federation and enhance provincial autonomy. However, one crucial ...

3. Kenney reforms may reduce health-care wait times, like in Saskatchewan

   At a recent press conference, Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro announced his plan to implement bold reforms to improve Alberta’s health-care system. Expressing concern for record high wait times in the province, the minister promised ...

4. Alberta should look abroad—and next door—for better ways to provide health care

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, February 15, 2019 Albertans, like Canadians more broadly, spend comparatively high amounts on health care but only receive modest performance from the system compared to other universal care countries. Thankfully, there’s much ...

5. Health Care Reform Options for Alberta

   Canada is widely acknowledged to be a comparatively high spender among countries with universal health care but achieves only a modest to average rating on measures of performance. Within Canada, Alberta is a relatively high spender with modest results. ...

6. Alberta should look to France, Germany and Australia to improve its health-care system

   The office of the auditor general of Alberta recently delivered a report on the province’s expensive but underperforming health-care system. During an interview, the auditor general (Merwan Saher) rhetorically asked reporters “You are ...

7. Albertans endure abysmal wait times despite 191% health-care spending increase over 15 years

   Another budget, another round of growth in health-care spending in Alberta. The projected 3.2 per cent increase in health-care spending this year may sound reasonable at face-value since it’s generally in line with population growth and ...

8. Health-care spending could consume 47 per cent of Alberta’s budget by 2030

   Since 1998, health-care spending in Alberta has increased by 317.1 per cent—faster than in any other Canadian province—outpacing population growth, inflation, growth in government spending on other programs, and provincial economic ...

9. Alberta’s health-care spending is unsustainable

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, June 5, 2016 It’s no secret Alberta’s provincial government is in a fiscal hole. Alberta is expected to run a big budget deficit this year and rack up tens of billions of dollars in debt over the next few years. If the ...

10. Alberta health minister’s proposal ignores fundamental problem with Canadian health care

    Last week, the Hon. Sarah Hoffman, Alberta’s minister of health, got it right when she said “[w]e simply cannot continue increasing spending on health care in this province the way we have done in the past.” However, her proposed ...