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1. Fraser Forum- May/June 2013: Value for money in health care: Varying performances across Canada

   In this issue: Balanced budget in BC comes with short- and long-term pain by Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, and Milagros Palacios BC Liberals have put an emphasis on balancing the budget over the next year. BC’s Prosperity Fund: A good idea if designed ...

2. How about a holiday from Canada's health care straitjacket?

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun and Winnipeg Free Press For many Canadians, the Victoria Day long weekend marks the beginning of summertime holiday planning, if not a late May escape after a long winter. For those who travel outside of the country in the ...

3. Canadians paying high-end prices for bargain-basement health care

   Appeared in the National Post With the deadline for filing income tax returns now passed, some Canadians may still be in shock at the size of their tax bills while others no doubt find solace in the belief that their taxes help pay for a high quality ...

4. Cutting Canada's Drug Lag while Improving Safety

   Appeared in the Guelph Mercury New medicines are a central component of modern medical care, treating illness effectively, providing more comfortable treatment regimes, extending life and reducing disability, and sometimes offering new treatment options ...

5. Federal Delays in Approving New Medicines 2013

   This study measures delays in the approval of new medicines by Health Canada and provides patients with the information they need in order to determine whether the time they wait for access to new medicines in Canada is unnecessarily long. Our findings ...

6. Health Care Lessons from Japan

   This paper focuses on the Japanese health care system which has been identified as a system that provides some of the best outcomes on an aggregate basis when compared with other developed nations that maintain universal approaches to health care ...

7. Before adding new taxes, cut health care spending

   Appeared in the Sundre Round Up and Innisfail Province Having spent itself into a considerable deficit problem, the Alberta government seems to be considering a sales tax as part of its plan to dig provincial finances out of the red (or at least they’re ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...