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1. Blame Obama if the Trans-Pacific Partnership fails

   Fraser Institute scholars such as Prof. Herb Grubel and Prof. Livio Di Matteo have described how the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive multilateral free-trade deal among 12 countries, would bring opportunities to Canada and the United ...

2. Hillary Clinton’s anti-pharmaceutical campaign will hurt Canadian patients

   Last September, Hillary Clinton announced a proposal to impose federal price controls on prescription drugs. Politically, Clinton may be on to something. In an October poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, drug costs topped the ...

3. 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 + ...

4. No matter who wins in 2016, Obamacare will have to be renegotiated

   For more than five years now, Republican politicians have succeeded in appeasing the conservative American voting base by pledging to “repeal and replace Obamacare,” the health reform passed by a Democratic majority Congress and signed ...

5. Republicans rely on red herring in U.S. health care debate

   My previous blog entry congratulated Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for making a serious health reform proposal in his presidential campaign. Well, it looks like I wasted your time because Gov. Walker, performing well below expectations ...

6. Republican presidential candidates can't duck-and-roll on health reform

   American health care is a confusing jumble. Federally run Medicare for people over 65, state-run Medicaid for poor people, employer-based private insurance for most with jobs, and (as of 2014) federally subsidized privately provided ...

7. A Lethal Guardian: The Canadian Government's Ban on Prescription Drugs

   When any new drug is invented and ready for distribution in Canada, the Canadian government responds by enforcing an automatic ban on its use. This ban is removed for patients who need the drug immediately only under extraordinary circumstances. The ...

8. Canadian Pharmacare: Performance, Incentives, and Insurance

   This paper discusses differences between provincial drug plans with respect to breadth of coverage and cost sharing between patients and taxpayers, and introduces two new measurements to describe how provincial Pharmacare plans perform as insurers and how ...

9. Barbarians Invading

     The Barbarian Invasions is an impressive Canadian film. (Yes, we do make them). The movie won two awards at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival: Best Screenplay and Best Actress, and is currently playing in a number of US cities. It is the story of a man ...

10. The BC Government is Eroding Patients' and Physicians' Rights

    An Abridged Version Appeared in The Province, December 10, 2003 On November 17, British Columbia’s provincial government proposed several new amendments to the Medicare Protection Act. According to the news release, the goal is to protect patients from ...