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  1. The Rebirth of Medicare in Saskatchewan: Steps Toward an Accessible, High Quality, and Sustainable Health Care System

    In June 2000, Saskatchewan conducted a major review of its health care system and issued its report in April 2001. The provincial government also invited comments from the public and health care providers; more than 100 individuals and organizations ...

  2. Overhead, So What? Medicare Needs Competition

    Appeared in The Globe and Mail, August 25, 2003 Last Thursday, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article claiming that administrative costs of health care in the United States are higher than in those in Canada: $1,059 (US) in the United ...

  3. For Street Racing, We Need the Carrot, as Well as the Stick

      The troubling June 10 hospitalization of an injured couple in Burnaby has once again focused the public policy spotlight on the question of street racing. Police suspect the Burnaby couple was injured when their vehicle was struck by an out-of-control ...

  4. Canada's Health Care System Still Looking Backwards

      In Canada, it is difficult to have an honest debate about the problems facing the medicare system. After almost forty years of government monopoly health care, the special interests that gain from the current system do everything to stifle discussion. ...

  5. More Money is not the Answer for Canada's Health Care Woes

      As the provinces and the Prime Minister continue to battle over the future of medicare, they all agree on one thing: a massive infusion of new money into health care in the next federal budget. This expansion, rumoured to be in the billions, is supposed ...

  6. Romanow Ignores Facts, Claims No One Told Him

      Roy Romanow, head of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, is either confused or just plain ignorant about the advantages of increased patient choice. After an alarming speech at Harvard University on Wednesday, where he claimed that ...

  7. Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada, 12th Edition

    This Critical Issues Bulletin is the Institute's twelfth attempt to document the extent to which queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures are being used to control health care expenses. When we began producing ...

  8. Saskatchewan Prosperity: Taking the Next Step

    Given the specific challenges facing Saskatchewan, this study includes both immediate and longer- term recommendations. Immediate Policy Recommendations. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/SaskatchewanProsperity.pdf ...