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1. New report highlights Canada’s low health-care ranking among peer countries

   Canada ranked last on timely access to specialist consultations and elective/non-emergency surgery. ...

2. Incentivize hospitals to treat patients—not avoid them

   Hospitals currently view patients as costs that eat into the budget. ...

3. Provinces should ask for more health-care freedom—not more money

   Canada already ranked among the highest health-care spenders in the world before the pandemic. ...

4. Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2020

   Comparing the performance of different countries’ health-care systems provides an opportunity 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 data ...

5. Three reasons why our hospitals are overcrowded

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, February 12, 2020 A damning investigation by CBC News recently revealed that “hallway medicine” is now the norm in Ontario. Almost 50 per cent of hospitals in the province regularly operate beyond capacity, with ...

6. Other universal health-care countries allow private health insurance—and have shorter wait times

   A new study by the Fraser Institute details how Canada is one of the only high-income countries in the world that does not embrace private insurers for medically necessary care. Importantly, each of the 16 countries examined share Canada ...

7. Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2019

   Comparing the performance of different countries’ health-care systems provides an opportunity 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 data ...

8. 'Medicare for All' proponents should heed Canada’s health-care woes

   Appeared in the Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2019 Many powerful Americans believe “Medicare for All” will solve U.S. health-care problems through universal coverage, controlled costs and more equitable access. As Senator Bernie Sanders, frontrunner for ...

9. Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2018

   Comparing the performance of different countries' health-care systems provides an opportunity for policy makers and the general public to determine how well Canada's health-care system is performing relative to its international peers. Overall, ...

10. 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 ...