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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. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Health-care treatment wait times costs Canadians estimated $1.7 billion last year

   In 2016, we published the results of our 26th annual physician survey, documenting the extent of wait times in Canada. Over time, as additional information and measures have become available from provincial governments and independent ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. Seeking relief outside Canada's borders

    Appeared in Guelph Mercury and Waterloo Region Record One of the unfortunate realities of Canada's monopolistic health-care system is that some people feel they have no choice but to seek the care they need outside the country. And who can blame them ...