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1. 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 ...

2. Private sector helping address physician scarcity in the U.S.

   While Canada has one of the most expensive universal health-care systems in the world, the number of physicians relative to the Canadian population ranks well below the average of other wealthy countries. Moreover, the relatively long ...

3. 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 ...

4. We should stop demonizing private clinics—and the patients who need them

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, April 26, 2018 Earlier this month, on the heels of a new threat from the British Columbia government to fine doctors who accept private payment for treatment already covered by the government-run health-care system, a trial ...

5. Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2017

   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 ...

6. Let’s talk about the price of public health care in Canada

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, August 10, 2017 It seems like a simple question—how much do you pay for public health care? And yet, it’s one that most Canadians would struggle to answer. Many would say “it’s free.” Others may point to health-care ...

7. Universal health care doesn’t require a single-payer government monopoly

   A recent article in the New York Times by Robert H. Frank makes a politically appealing case for why the United States should adopt a single-payer system. Unfortunately, the author makes a number of inaccurate (or at least, incomplete) ...

8. The Sustainability of Health Care Spending in Canada 2017

   Health care is the single largest budget item for every province in Canada, ranging from 34.3 percent of total program spending in Quebec to 43.2 percent in Ontario in 2016. Any changes in the amount spent on health care can have a significant impact on a ...

9. Survey critics unwilling to acknowledge wait-time problem in Canada

   Appeared in Vancouver Sun, December 16, 2016 Fact—if you leave a medical condition untreated for too long, it can turn into a debilitating chronic condition. For too long, we have failed to address the fundamental causes of wait times for medical ...

10. Putting Trump's views on Canadian health care to the test

    Now that Donald Trump has been elected president, it’s worth revisiting the evolution of his views on Canada’s health-care system. Although Mr. Trump started his campaign by stating that “[a]s far as single payer, it works in Canada,”- ...