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1. Minister of health makes dubious claims about Ottawa’s pharmacare plan

   Appeared in the Hill Times, July 3, 2019 With the release of the Hoskins’ report last week, national pharmacare will likely be a central issue in this fall’s federal election. It’s therefore quite worrying that federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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. ...

4. On health-care reform, Trudeau should finish what Chretien started

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, September 22, 2016 In the 1990s, Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s Liberals reduced the amount of money it sent to the provinces to help fund provincial welfare programs but, in return, gave the provinces greater freedom to design ...

5. Less Ottawa, More Province: How Decentralization Is Key to Health Care Reform

   Despite high levels of public spending, Canada’s health-care system consistently performs more poorly than a number of peer jurisdictions with universal health-care systems. Governments across the country must address this policy challenge in a context of ...

6. 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 ...

7. Health reform lessons from the Land of the Living Skies

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, May 12, 2016 Albertans may forget that it was the Saskatchewan NDP, not the Conservatives in Alberta, that led the way to balanced budgets in the early 1990s. Saskatchewan is again showing its proclivity for innovation and ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. Fraser Forum- May/June 2013: Value for money in health care: Varying performances across Canada

    In this issue: Balanced budget in BC comes with short- and long-term pain by Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, and Milagros Palacios BC Liberals have put an emphasis on balancing the budget over the next year. BC’s Prosperity Fund: A good idea if designed ...