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1. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2012 Report

   This edition of 2012 Waiting Your Turn indicates that waiting times for elective medical treatment have decreased since last year. Specialist physicians surveyed across 12 specialties and 10 Canadian provinces report a total waiting time of 17.7 weeks ...

2. Fraser Forum- November/December 2012: Solving traffic congestion the European way

   In this issue: The price of public health care insurance in 2012 by Nadeem Esmail and Milagros Palacios Canadian health care is often considered “free” but how much do Canadians actually pay for the care they receive? How the media covered Occupy Wall ...

3. The Price of Public Health Care Insurance: 2012 Edition

   Canadians often misunderstand the true cost of our public health care system. This occurs partly because Canadians do not incur direct expenses for their use of health care, and partly because Canadians cannot readily determine the value of their ...

4. The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2012 edition

   The estimated cost of waiting for care in Canada for patients who were in the queue in 2011, was $1.08 billion?an average of about $1,144 for each of the estimated 941,321 Canadians waiting for treatment in 2011. Alternatively, that cost works out to ...

5. 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. ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. Nothing conservative about this budget

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald As Albertans ponder Premier Alison Redford’s first budget, they would be wise to ignore Finance Minister Ron Liepert’s assurance that Albertans can “[take] comfort in our fiscal situation.” A closer look at the budget ...

9. Junk the Junk Tax Idea

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Taxing foods that nutritionists don’t want us to consume is an idea gaining popularity in Canada. Proponents of so-called “fat taxes” offer it as a way to improve diets and reduce the health costs of obesity. The truth ...

10. Hospital Report Card: British Columbia 2011

    The Fraser Institute?s Hospital Report Card: British Columbia 2011 is constructed in order to contribute to the improvement of inpatient care in British Columbia by providing hospital-specific information about quality of service directly to patients and ...