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1. Trudeau’s budget: a missed opportunity at health-care reform

   Appeared in the Financial Post, April 6, 2016 Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government tabled its first budget. While the media (understandably) focused on the $29 billion deficit, other important aspects of the budget went unnoticed. Of ...

2. Sorry Mr. Trump, Canadian Health Care is Not Working

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province As is often the case in U.S. politics—though normally on the Democratic side of the aisle—Canada’s health care system was raised as a functioning alternative to the American model. Specifically, GOP front-runner Donald ...

3. Wait times in Canada longer than health report suggests

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press You know things are bad when the best you can say is “at least it hasn’t gotten any worse.” That, essentially, is the main takeaway from the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s updated report on wait times for ...

4. Canada not a good example of universal health care

   Appeared on Forbes.com The heated and often emotionally charged debate over the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) hasn’t subsided despite it being the law of the land for more than four years. Indeed, with the VA scandal, continuing problems in the ...

5. Effect of Wait Times on Mortality in Canada

   Wait times for health care in Canada have lengthened considerably over the past two decades. Across 12 major medical specialties, the estimated typical wait time has risen from 9.3 weeks in 1993 to 18.2 weeks in 2013. These inordinately long waits, among ...

6. The star-spangled straw man

   A recent testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee by Dr. Danielle Martin, former head of the Canadian Doctors for Medicare, has given Canadians the chance to indulge in what may be a favourite pastime- criticizing the American health care system. ...

7. Despite spending $134 billion more, health care waits remain

     In most places, if you spend more, you receive more in goods or services. The glaring exception is Canada's government-run health care system. Consider this fact: Canada's provinces spent $134 billion more on health care between 2004 and 2012 ...

8. Hate to (Br)eak it to you Walt, but it's pretty (Ba)d in Canada too

   Appeared in the Huffington Post, October 2013 The season finale of the popular U.S. drama Breaking Bad brought with it renewed interest in a viral internet meme that implicitly suggested that the entire story might not have taken place had the main ...

9. Summer health care forecast: Typical slowdown with risk of increased sluggishness

   Appeared in the Fredericton Gleaner, Sundre Round Up and Nelson Daily.com Get ready for Medicare’s annual summer slowdown, where the forecast calls for possibly poorer than usual service levels. Every year, provincial health care systems across Canada ...