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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. Long health-care wait times hurt Canadians in many ways

   According to the survey, an estimated 1.2 million Canadians waited for treatment last year. ...

3. Non-COVID patients pay price for health-care backlogs

   According to the Quebec government, an estimated 140,000 patients are waiting for surgery in the province. ...

4. B.C. should consider long-term collaboration with private clinics

   The estimated time to clear the backlog has been reduced from 24 months to 15 months. ...

5. Private clinics could help Alberta reduce health-care wait times

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, August 5, 2020 Health-care reform is a topic of endless discussion by Canadian politicians. But action on health care is much rarer. The Kenney government recently introduced Bill-30, which contains a number of significant ...

6. 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 ...

7. Canadians pay a lot for ‘free’ health care

   Appeared in Calgary's Business, December 12, 2019 The fall federal election showed that politicians across the spectrum are happy to promise to spend more on our government-run health-care system. Whether the spending is for long-term care or ...

8. Opponents of health-care reform continue to ignore wait times data

   Appeared in CBC Opinion, May 12, 2019 Perceptions about how much we pay for health care in Canada vary wildly. Some call it a “free” system. Some analysts (including yours truly) try to figure out how much we actually pay for it through taxes (for the ...

9. 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 ...

10. Ontario no longer has shortest health-care wait times in Canada

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, December 5, 2018 Sadly, long wait times for medical treatment have defined the Canadian health-care system for many years. Long waits visit a wide range of harms upon Canadians including unnecessary pain and suffering, lost ...