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  1. Milton Friedman’s Ideas Alive and Well

    Appeared in the Sudbury Star  July 30 was “Friedman Legacy for Freedom Day.” The date commemorates the intellectual contribution to the advancement of freedom made by the late Milton Friedman, renowned economist and Nobel laureate. Celebrating any scholar ...

  2. Average Personal Affordability of Prescription Drug Spending in Canada and the United States, 2010 edition

    The findings of this study suggest that, on average, greater government intervention in Canada?s drug markets has not provided more affordable access to prescription drugs relative to less interventionist policy in the United States. This study notes that ...

  3. Access Delayed, Access Denied: Waiting for New Medicines in Canada 2010

    This annual report provides patients with some of the information they need to determine whether the time they wait for access to new medicines in Canada is unnecessarily long, and whether publicly funded and managed drug insurance programs provide ...

  4. We should privatize CMHC; Mortgage agency puts huge risks on taxpayer

    Appeared in the Financial Post Based on the frequency of reporting in the media, it seems that many people are increasingly worried that a housing bubble could develop in Canada. On Feb. 8 The Wall Street Journal even published an article suggesting that ...

  5. Paying More, Getting Less Measuring the Sustainability of Government Health Spending in Canada 2009 Report

    This report studies the financial sustainability of health spending by provincial governments in Canada. This report uses an empirical trend analysis to estimate long-term future sustainability. The trend is derived from the average annual growth rates ...

  6. Alberta’s drug reimbursement policy needs re-thinking

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald The Alberta government has just released the second phase of the provincial Pharmaceutical Strategy. The plan calls for decreasing public reimbursement rates for new generic drugs from 75 per cent of the price of the ...

  7. Fraser Forum- September 2009: Canada's Labour Market

    In this issue: Highlights of the 2009 Petroleum Survey by Gerry Angevine Manitoba is now the most attractive Canadian province for petroleum investment, while Alberta is the least attractive. Smart thinking on sales taxes by Niels Veldhuis and Charles ...

  8. Canadian Health Policy Failures

    Canadian health policy is increasingly failing patients and taxpayers. Canadians spend a lot on health care relative to comparable countries. Yet our high relative level of spending does not buy Canadians as many health care resources as patients in other ...

  9. The Medical Bankruptcy Myth

    Appeared in American Magazine Online, August 2009 The debate about American healthcare is being influenced by recent controversial research claiming to show that nearly two-thirds of personal bankruptcies in the United States resulted from uninsured ...

  10. Access Delayed, Access Denied: Waiting for New Medicines in Canada 2009

    This is the Fraser Institute's third annual report on the amount of time patients must wait to access new medicines in Canada. The 2009 edition of this study uses the most recent data available, covering the years 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. https:/ ...