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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. The patience of Canadian patients is wearing thin

   A new survey by Angus Reid suggests the patience Canadians are famous for may be wearing thin—at least when it comes to wait times for medical treatment. The survey collected responses from 1,500 Canadians who received orthopaedic ...

4. Alberta should look to France, Germany and Australia to improve its health-care system

   The office of the auditor general of Alberta recently delivered a report on the province’s expensive but underperforming health-care system. During an interview, the auditor general (Merwan Saher) rhetorically asked reporters “You are ...

5. Mo money, mo health-care problems

   The classic song “Mo Money Mo Problems” by late rapper Notorious B.I.G. is a fitting way to describe the current state of federal health transfers from Ottawa to the provinces. As federal transfers have grown over the past decade, Canada ...

6. 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,”- ...

7. Provincial health ministers hope to pass the buck to Ottawa

   Provincial health ministers are calling on the federal government to return to the unsustainable rate of increases (six per cent per year) in the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) that typified the last decade. This plea comes despite the ...

8. Minister Philpott should stand firm on federal health transfers

   As we head deeper into the fall, and Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott’s self-imposed year-end deadline to negotiate a new health accord with the provinces approaches, the chorus of provincial health ministers begging for more money ...

9. Canadian health-care fix—innovation, not more money

   Researchers have long noted that while Canada ranks among the most expensive universal health-care systems in the developed world, it has fewer medical resources (physicians, beds, diagnostic scanners) on average, a mixed track record on ...