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1. Health spending bubble ready to burst- Appeared in the National Post

   Appeared in the National Post Canada’s health system is causing a crisis in provincial public finances. The growth in government health spending continues to outpace our public capacity to pay for it. The provinces must shift some costs onto medical ...

2. Canada's Medicare Bubble: Is Government Health Spending Sustainable without User-based Funding?

   Canada's Medicare Bubble examines whether the public costs associated with Canada’s health system are economically sustainable. Total provincial health spending has grown at an average annual rate of 7.5% over the last ten years, compared to only 5.7 ...

3. Questioning success on health care wait times

   Appeared in the National Post A Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) study recently reported that wait times for access to health care across a few priority treatment areas are improving. According to CIHI, “at least 8 out of 10 Canadian ...

4. The hidden costs of over-regulating access to new drugs

   Appeared in the Financial Post Conservative MP Terence Young recently accused Health Canada of putting lives at risk by approving too many new drugs too quickly. Young contends that instead of focusing on the safety of new medicines, Health Canada is ...

5. Auto Insurance Market Quality Index 2010

   This study aims to explain the link between the regulation of auto insurance markets and the effect of this regulation on consumers, and to help identify public policies that are most likely to produce superior results. Among the 60 jurisdictions analyzed ...

6. Value for Money from Health Insurance Systems in Canada and the OECD

   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). Economic performance is ...

7. Canada's Drug Price Paradox, 2010

   Since 2005, this study has regulary compared Canadian and American retail prices for an identical group of the 100 most commonly prescribed brand-name (mostly patented) drugs and the 100 most commonly prescribed generic drugs in Canada. This year?s study ...

8. The Misguided War Against Medicines 2010

   The Misguided War against Medicines 2010 examines all of the ways in which spending on drugs may contribute to the overall growth in total government health spending. The evidence suggests that neither patented medicines in particular, nor prescription ...

9. Governments face a looming cash-crisis on health care spending

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press Canada’s auditor general told delegates at this week’s general meeting of the Canadian Medical Association that our federal government doesn’t know if Canada’s health care system is sustainable over the long term in its ...

10. Why We’re Paying More For Health Care and Getting Less

    Appeared in the National Post  The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) recently published a paper about the worrisome condition of Canada’s health-care system. Its report concluded that the growth in government spending on health care is unsustainable, and ...