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1. Value for Money from Health Insurance Systems in Canada and the OECD

   This paper compares the economic performance of Canada?s health insurance system against the health insurance systems of 27 other countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Economic performance is ...

2. Canada's Drug Price Paradox, 2010

   Since 2005, this study has regulary compared Canadian and American retail prices for an identical group of the 100 most commonly prescribed brand-name (mostly patented) drugs and the 100 most commonly prescribed generic drugs in Canada. This year?s study ...

3. The Misguided War Against Medicines 2010

   The Misguided War against Medicines 2010 examines all of the ways in which spending on drugs may contribute to the overall growth in total government health spending. The evidence suggests that neither patented medicines in particular, nor prescription ...

4. The Quebec government had chance to lead the nation on health care reform. Instead it turned tail

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press The Quebec government had the opportunity to be the first province to enact meaningful reform in health care, but instead it got cold feet. By cancelling its planned $25-user fee for seeing a doctor, Quebec caved in to ...

5. Governments face a looming cash-crisis on health care spending

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press Canada’s auditor general told delegates at this week’s general meeting of the Canadian Medical Association that our federal government doesn’t know if Canada’s health care system is sustainable over the long term in its ...

6. Why We’re Paying More For Health Care and Getting Less

   Appeared in the National Post  The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) recently published a paper about the worrisome condition of Canada’s health-care system. Its report concluded that the growth in government spending on health care is unsustainable, and ...

7. 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 ...

8. Ontario government coming to terms with reality of health care funding

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun The light bulb has gone on and the Ontario government has finally realized that the current method of financing health care in this province is not sustainable. In the recent throne speech, Premier Dalton McGuinty warned that ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...