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1. Canada's health-care gift horse hardly free

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, July 31, 2018 The Canadian health-care system is often described as being “free” simply because we don’t pay any money at the doctor’s office or hospital. Defenders of the status quo often claim that this feature of our so ...

2. The private cost of health-care queues in Canada

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, June 7, 2018 It’s no secret that Canadians face some of the longest wait times for health care in the developed world. In fact, according to the Fraser Institute’s annual survey of physicians, at 21.2 weeks from referral to ...

3. Ottawa’s rules make health care worse

   Appeared in the Moncton Times-Transcript, May 18, 2018 What makes health care in our country uniquely Canadian? It’s certainly not the goal to ensure universal access to care regardless of ability to pay. That goal is shared by at least 28 other high ...

4. 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 ...

5. Where patients are prisoners to bureaucratic will

   It has been well-established that, despite spending more on health care than the majority of developed countries that seek to provide universal access regardless of a patient’s ability to pay, Canada performs poorly on a number of key ...

6. 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 ...

7. Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2016

     Comparing the performance of different countries’ health-care systems provides an op-portunity 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 ...

8. Less Ottawa, More Province: How Decentralization Is Key to Health Care Reform

   Despite high levels of public spending, Canada’s health-care system consistently performs more poorly than a number of peer jurisdictions with universal health-care systems. Governments across the country must address this policy challenge in a context of ...

9. Do you know how much you pay for health care?

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, August 6, 2016 An interesting quirk of Canada’s public health-care system is that no one really knows how much they pay for it. The constant reminders about health care consuming 40 per cent of provincial budgets (on average) ...

10. Hard choices ahead—growth in health-care spending means something’s gotta give

    High level of spending has not yielded high value in return—Canada has some of the longest wait times for treatment in the developed world. ...