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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. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. Feds offer health ministers opportunity to enact real reform

   Appeared in the Edmonton Journal, Times Colonist, and Toronto Sun As the premiers meet this week in Victoria, a number of provinces are clearly distressed about the federal government’s plan to reduce the automatic annual increase in health transfers from ...

9. Creativity and innovation needed from provincial health ministers

   Appeared in Okanagan Saturday When provincial and territorial health ministers recently met in Halifax to discuss the 2004 federal-provincial-territorial agreement on health transfers, which is set to expire in 2014, the resulting news reports simply ...

10. Government Health Care: Not the 11th Commandment

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald Whenever talk of health care reform arises—and praise for European countries that combine universal coverage with more private sector involvement—a reflex inevitably kicks in. For some, it seems more privately-delivered or ...