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1. Nova Scotia can improve health care without breaking the bank

   Since 1999, the provincial government increased health-care spending by more than 78 per cent. ...

2. More money won’t fix Newfoundland and Labrador health-care system

   The province spent more per-capita on health care than any other province. ...

3. Alberta operates remarkably inefficient health-care system with huge price tag

   The province had the capacity to perform more than 1.3 million CT exams but only 419,000 were actually performed. ...

4. Long health-care wait times hurt Canadians in many ways

   According to the survey, an estimated 1.2 million Canadians waited for treatment last year. ...

5. Kenney government postpones reforms despite COVID-related surgery backlog

   Appeared in the Edmonton Journal, June 18, 2020 Despite encouraging evidence from other jurisdictions, the Kenney government recently postponed its plan to expand the use of private medical clinics to perform publicly-funded surgeries. The plan mirrors a ...

6. Policymakers should consider health-care reform in post-COVID world

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, April 22, 2020 The COVID-19 crisis has led many provinces to take drastic measures to both limit the spread of the virus and ensure scarce medical resources are available, including cancelling thousands of elective ...

7. Private sector helping address physician scarcity in the U.S.

   While Canada has one of the most expensive universal health-care systems in the world, the number of physicians relative to the Canadian population ranks well below the average of other wealthy countries. Moreover, the relatively long ...

8. Ford health-care plan falls well short of what's needed

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, March 6, 2019 Last week, the Ford government finally lifted the veil on The People's Health Care Act, which includes changes to how health care will be organized in Ontario. Specifically, the bill formalizes the government ...

9. Alberta should look abroad—and next door—for better ways to provide health care

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, February 15, 2019 Albertans, like Canadians more broadly, spend comparatively high amounts on health care but only receive modest performance from the system compared to other universal care countries. Thankfully, there’s much ...

10. Health Care Reform Options for Alberta

    Canada is widely acknowledged to be a comparatively high spender among countries with universal health care but achieves only a modest to average rating on measures of performance. Within Canada, Alberta is a relatively high spender with modest results. ...