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1. Health Care Lessons from Australia

   This paper is the first in a series that examines the way health services are funded and delivered in other nations. The nations profiled all aim to achieve the noble goal of Canada?s health care system: access to high quality care regardless of ability ...

2. Long waits and queue jumping go hand in hand

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald The idea that some Albertans might be getting their publicly-funded health care more rapidly than others because of who they happen to be, or who they know, or indeed if they have greater ability to pay, seems to have ...

3. The Unfunded Liability of Canada's Health Care System

   This Alert analyzes the unfunded liablility of Canada's health care system (Medicare). A program has an unfunded liability when it has a shortfall between the expected future stream of funding and future benefit obligations. https://www ...

4. Access to New Oncology Drugs in Canada Compared with the United States and Europe

   Cancer is the leading cause of premature death in Canada and the numbers of new cases of several major cancers have remained relatively stable. New, better treatments are needed as soon as they can be introduced. Using previously published information, ...

5. How the market can rescue Ontario's government and its doctors

   Appeared in the Belleville Intelligencer, Kingston Whig Standard, London Free Press, Owen Sound Sun Times, Sarnia Observer, and Sault This Week Earlier this year, the Ontario government sparked a fight with the province’s doctors when it announced plans ...

6. Canadian health care system provides poor value for tax dollars spent

   With the turning of the calendar to May, the effort to complete our income tax returns will slowly start to fade from memory. ...

7. Lifting the veil on hospital performance

   Appeared in the Kelowna Daily Courier Last week the Canadian Institute for Health Information lifted the veil of secrecy surrounding the performance of Canadian hospitals with its Canadian Hospital Reporting Project, an interactive web site that measures ...

8. Time to reform the Canada Health Act

   Appeared in the National Post With rumoured spending cuts in the upcoming federal budget, look for the Conservatives to play up one area of spending they’ve committed to increasing: health care transfers to the provinces. Last December, Finance Minister ...

9. Canadian Federal Health Transfers to the Provinces, 2012 edition

   Canada?s federal government sends cash transfers to the provinces to help pay for health care. Under the current arrangement regarding cash transfers, the federal government has committed to increasing its cash transfers for health care by 6 percent ...

10. Ontario's health care system needs more than Band-Aid solutions

    Appeared in the National Post This week, Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews published her plan for controlling provincial government health spending. While the Minister is correct when she says the growth of provincial health care spending is not ...