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1. The average Canadian family will pay $12,935 for health care this year

   Most Canadians likely know they pay some amount to sustain our public health-care system. However, they probably don’t know how much. We aren’t billed directly for health services, and we have nothing that even closely approximates a ...

2. Timely health care—there’s an app for that!

   There’s been much discussion recently about the results of a new survey examining the impact of technology on health care. Conducted by Ipsos-Reid, the findings suggest that Canadians—particularly younger Canadians—are eager to adopt new ...

3. Twitter tiff sparks health-care debate free of apt comparisons

   A recent tweet prompted what one journalist dubbed a “Canadian love-in for public health care.” Nathan Rubin, the founder of “a podcast aimed at young American progressives,” tweeted that “[m]illennials don’t hear socialism and think ...

4. New pricing regulations may restrict access to innovative drugs in Canada

   We should all be concerned about Canadians who have difficulty paying for their prescription medications. Unfortunately, Ottawa’s response—to increasingly regulate the prices of all patented medicines—is misguided. Simply forcing ...

5. Changes to Ontario drug program a (very small) step forward

   The original OHIP+ provided limited coverage to a population that largely didn’t need assistance. ...

6. 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 ...

7. Budget 2018 lays groundwork for possible national pharmacare program

   In most countries with universal health care, patients share the cost of treatment—surgical or pharmaceutical. ...

8. Merkel should stand her ground and protect German health care

   As German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives face tough negotiations with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to maintain what has been termed the “grand coalition,” the future of Germany’s health-care system hangs in the balance. In ...

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. 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) ...