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  1. The Fairness of Fair Pharmacare

      The newspapers and airwaves are filled with people fuming about Fair Pharmacare. There are three major complaints (other than the challenge of getting through to Pharmacare to register). Firstly, that Fair Pharmacare forces patients to pay more of their ...

  2. Fair Pharmacare is a Fair First Step

      The provincial government has finally decided to cut back on one small area of health spending, by significantly increasing user fees for Pharmacare. Although many British Columbians are under the misapprehension that the Liberal government cut back ...

  3. The Health Care 'Discord'

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, February 23, 2003 Canadians seem to think that our politicians should be responsible for running a transparent and accountable health-care system. However, the first ministers cannot even run a transparent and ...

  4. Competition, Not Money, will Cure Health Care

      Yesterday’s federal budget committed $35 billion over the next five years to cure Canada’s health care system. Let’s curb our enthusiasm. Historically, more public health spending has not resulted in better health outcomes for Canadians. In fact, we ...

  5. 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. ...

  6. Premiers Want Money...Not Accountability

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press Six weeks ago, on this page, I lamented Roy Romanow’s failure to propose creative reforms to our country’s health care system. He simply demanded $15 billion more federal transfers to provinces, while expanding ...

  7. How Mean is a Pharmacare Means Test?

    Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Faced with a crowd of 2,000 seniors protesting in front of the provincial legislature last Tuesday, the provincial government reneged on its commitment to a means test for Pharmacare benefits. This is a bad sign. Seniors ...

  8. Romanow, Romanow, Wherefore Art Thou Romanow?

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, December 1, 2002 Psychologists are familiar with the idea of cognitive dissonance, whereby a person must reconcile beliefs and behaviour that are contradictory. Because behaviour is much more difficult to change than ...

  9. The Fantasy of Reference Pricing and the Promise of Choice in BC's Pharmacare

    For defenders of government-run health care, the existence of provincial drug benefit plans is actually a blot on Canadian health care, in that they are not part of single-payer, first-dollar coverage, medicare (National Forum on Health, 1997:22). When ...

  10. National Pharmacare: Prescription for Restriction

    Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen The existence of independent provincial Pharmacare programs and private insurance for prescription drugs is considered by some to be a blot on Canadian medicare. They want these options abolished in favour of National ...