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1. McNeil government should allow private sector to help reduce surgery backlog

   Appeared in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, September 19, 2020 As uncertainty over COVID continues, no one knows when things will be “normal” again. For patients in Nova Scotia, however, a return to normalcy will mean a return to the same overburdened ...

2. 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 ...

3. Private health care isn’t the problem—it’s part of the solution

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, June 28, 2017 Recent news reports about private payments for medically necessary procedures in British Columbia tell an important story about a group of desperate people who are being oppressed by those in power. But ...

4. Misinformation fuels opposition to health-care reform in Canada

   Appeared in the National Post, September 19, 2016 For almost two decades, fear of a U.S.-style system has fuelled opposition to genuine reform of Canadian health care. Many of those same opposition voices are now protesting the constitutional challenge to ...

5. Embracing the private sector to deliver universal health care in B.C.

   Appeared in the Huffington Post, June 15, 2015 British Columbia’s health ministry recently announced it will invest $10 million to increase surgical capacity, with an eye on reducing wait times. Part of the plan involves contracting some surgeries out to ...

6. Set aside ideology and take real look at European health care

   Appeared in the Huffington Post Professor Colleen Flood’s recent column in Globe Debate (Canada should look to Europe on health care, not the U.S) got the title right – but just about everything else wrong. Canadians would indeed benefit from a look at ...