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1. The reality of U.S. and Canadian health-care spending

   Health-care spending accounts for a high share of Gross Domestic Product in the United States, relative to Canada. In 2013, U.S. health-care spending accounted for 17.1 per cent of GDP, versus just 10.7 per cent in Canada, according to ...

2. Marcus Welby, where are you? The decline and fall of house calls

   I recently saw an interesting Tweet from Jay Parkinson, MD, one of America’s new breed of entrepreneurial physicians: “There's a reason why house calls went out of fashion. Grossly inefficient use of very expensive doctor time + ...

3. Fair Pharmacare is a Fair First Step

     The provincial government has finally decided to cut back on one small area of health spending, by significantly increasing user fees for Pharmacare. Although many British Columbians are under the misapprehension that the Liberal government cut back ...

4. Premiers Want Money...Not Accountability

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press Six weeks ago, on this page, I lamented Roy Romanow’s failure to propose creative reforms to our country’s health care system. He simply demanded $15 billion more federal transfers to provinces, while expanding ...

5. The Romanow Commission: Tragedy of a One Man Band

     That report’s introduction reveals the futility of the task: “… a one-person, time-limited Commission cannot address every conceivable issue affecting the future of health care in Canada.” Take one man, add a budget of over $15 million, solicit the ...