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1. Court ruling locks patients into government-run health care

   More than one million patients in Canada waited almost 20 weeks (on average) for medically necessary care last year. ...

2. Huge backlog of surgeries underscores need for sweeping health-care reform in B.C.

   Appeared in the Globe and Mail, July 2, 2020 As the pandemic continues, the COVID—and non-COVID—health implications are becoming clearer in British Columbia. The Horgan government estimates it will take up to two years to complete the 30,000 cancelled ...

3. The ‘other’ health-care crisis damaging our economy—every year

   Appeared in the National Post, May 9, 2020 The COVID pandemic has devastated Canada’s economy and the recovery will be long and uncertain. However, another health-care crisis has been hurting Canadians, and the country’s economic productivity, for years ...

4. Policymakers should consider health-care reform in post-COVID world

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, April 22, 2020 The COVID-19 crisis has led many provinces to take drastic measures to both limit the spread of the virus and ensure scarce medical resources are available, including cancelling thousands of elective ...

5. Nova Scotia’s health-care wait times among longest in Canada

   Appeared in the Chronicle Herald, December 24, 2019 Nova Scotians are worried about health care—and rightly so, as the province’s wait times are among the longest in the country. According to a new study from the Fraser Institute, patients in Nova Scotia ...

6. The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2019

   One measure of the privately borne cost of wait times is the value of time that is lost while waiting for treatment. Valuing only hours lost during the average work week, the estimated cost of waiting for care in Canada for patients who were in ...

7. The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2018

   One measure of the privately borne cost of wait times is the value of time that is lost while waiting for treatment. Valuing only hours lost during the average work week, the estimated cost of waiting for care in Canada for patients who were in ...

8. Cracking down on private clinics means cracking down on patients in need

   British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix’s recent announcement, which threatened large fines for doctors accepting private payment for treatments covered by Medicare (extra-billing), suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of the ...

9. Canada’s health minister is right about one thing—there’s lots of work to do

   “Moving up the rank, one step at a time #muchmoretodo.” Those are the words Dr. Jane Philpott, Canada’s health minister (pictured above), tweeted upon the recent release of the Commonwealth Fund’s international ranking of health-care ...

10. 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 ...