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1. Obesity: Exaggerated claims governments can't solve anyways

   Appeared in the Huffington Post The response to my recent study (with Patrick Basham) on obesity trends and policy in Canada has been sharp and plentiful. Critics reiterated their view that Canadian waistlines are expanding continuously, putting lives and ...

2. Health Care Lessons from Germany

   The German health care system has been recognized as one that provides good quality care with attentive service in which wait times are not considered to be a problem, as well as a system that rapidly adopts new medical innovations. A careful examination ...

3. Obesity in Canada

   Everyone knows The Truth about obesity. A large and growing number of us have expanded waist lines. Consequently, our irrational and poor choices are leading us to illness and early death. Given this dire public health scenario, only government ...

4. The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2014 edition

   The measurement of health care waiting times, or the examination of the absolute delay Canadians must endure in order to receive medically necessary care, is only one way of looking at the burden of waiting for health care. We can also calculate the ...

5. Seeking relief outside Canada's borders

   Appeared in Guelph Mercury and Waterloo Region Record One of the unfortunate realities of Canada's monopolistic health-care system is that some people feel they have no choice but to seek the care they need outside the country. And who can blame them ...

6. Waiting for Health Care: A Terrible and Treatable Disease

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, LaPresse, Whitehorse Daly Star, and Flin Flon Reminder Waiting has become a defining characteristic of the Canadian health care experience. Patients stricken with illness, from mild to serious, must wait their turn for ...

7. Muddled medical thinking and a meddlesome Alberta doctor

   Appeared in the National Post and Calgary Herald One irony of Canadian life is that the most economically free province in the country, Alberta, often has government policy that is the most hostile to private health care. Another irony, this time right ...

8. Moving the right direction on intellectual property protection

   Appeared in the National Post The recent announcement of an agreement in principle on the free trade deal between Canada and the European Union is no doubt a positive development for the Canadian economy and ultimately Canadian incomes and standards of ...

9. Despite spending $134 billion more, health care waits remain

     In most places, if you spend more, you receive more in goods or services. The glaring exception is Canada's government-run health care system. Consider this fact: Canada's provinces spent $134 billion more on health care between 2004 and 2012 ...

10. Waiting Your Turn- Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2013 Report

    This edition of Waiting Your Turn indicates that waiting times for elective medical treatment have increased since last year. Specialist physicians surveyed across 12 specialties and 10 Canadian provinces report a total waiting time of 18.2 weeks between ...