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1. How the market can rescue Ontario's government and its doctors

   Appeared in the Belleville Intelligencer, Kingston Whig Standard, London Free Press, Owen Sound Sun Times, Sarnia Observer, and Sault This Week Earlier this year, the Ontario government sparked a fight with the province’s doctors when it announced plans ...

2. Ontario plays chicken with generic drug prices

   Appeared in the National Post Once again the Ontario government is meddling with generic drug prices in a vain attempt to save a few bucks. Having dug itself into an enormous fiscal hole, the province just announced it will further lower the prices it ...

3. Even in health care, incentives matter

   Appeared in the Guelph Mercury and Waterloo Region Record As those who have ever endured painful months, or even years, waiting for medically necessary treatment have discovered, all the new cash poured into Canada’s health care system in recent years has ...

4. Value for Money from Health Insurance Systems in Canada and the OECD, 2012 edition

   This paper compares the economic performance of Canada's health insurance system against the health insurance systems of 27 other countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). According to the most ...

5. Easy access to new prescription drugs depends on where you live

   Appeared in the National Post Question: Should patients in Rome or Detroit have faster access to new prescription drugs than someone living in Victoria or Windsor? If your answer to that is no, then here is another query: Why do government agencies tasked ...

6. Access Delayed, Access Denied: Waiting for New Medicines in Canada: 2012

   This edition of Access Delayed, Access Denied is the Fraser Institute?s sixth annual report measuring delays in the approval of new drugs by Health Canada and rates of coverage for new drugs under provincial public drug plans, relative to private-sector ...

7. Nova Scotia should allow competition to determine generic drug prices- commentary

   Appeared in the Oxford Journal Nova Scotia’s minister of health Maureen McDonald has announced her government’s intentions of introducing legislation this spring aimed at getting ‘fairer’ drug prices. It appears that minister McDonald will likely be ...

8. Ontario's health care system needs more than Band-Aid solutions

   Appeared in the National Post This week, Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews published her plan for controlling provincial government health spending. While the Minister is correct when she says the growth of provincial health care spending is not ...

9. Ontario's- pay more, get less- health care system

   Appeared in the Timmins Daily Press Facing a $16-billion deficit, the Ontario government announced it will stop funding a handful of medical services currently covered by the public health insurer. This should come as no surprise, as it has become the ...

10. Fraser Forum- January/February 2012: Longer than ever- Canadian Healthcare

    In this issue: Cut now, not later by Niels Veldhuis, Milagros Palacios, and Charles Lammam Program spending needs to be cut if provincial governments want to run a stable budget without deficits. Federal government’s decit delay no surprise by Niels ...