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  1. Hidden costs of Canadian health care system

    Appeared in the Chicago Sun Times In a pivotal scene in Sicko, filmmaker Michael Moore marvels at Canada's single-payer health system, suggesting that it is a medical utopia. It's really a fabulous system, explains one healthy Canadian, for ...

  2. Risk, Progressive Licensing and the Health Benefits Lost by Over-Regulating New Drugs

    The purpose of this publication is to contribute to the public dialogue about drug safety regulation and to raise the awareness of the general public about some important but perhaps underappreciated concepts about risk that should be part of the decision ...

  3. California Dreaming: The Fantasy of a Canadian-Style Health Insurance Monopoly in the United States

    The purpose of this paper is to warn Americans about the dangerous ideas contained in the Universal Health Insurance bill (SB-840) that was recently passed by the Democratic Party majority in the California state legislature and Senate, but which was ...

  4. Access Delayed, Access Denied: Waiting for New Medicines in Canada 2007

    This report analyzes the total time patients must wait in Canada to gain access to newly invented pharmaceutical and biological medicines, also known as patented drugs. The purpose of this report is twofold: (1) to draw attention to the impact that ...

  5. The False Promise of Government Auto Insurance

    This study estimates and compares the average cost of personal passenger automobile insurance premiums in each of the 10 Canadian provinces for the years 2004 and 2005. Other studies have examined the price of auto insurance by selectively comparing ...

  6. The Misguided War Against Medicines

    Appeared in the Windsor Star, Peace River Block News, Woodstock Sentinel-Review, and the Owen Sound Sun-Times Since 2000, at least five provincial studies, plus a Senate report have concluded that the annual growth in government health spending is not ...

  7. The Misguided War Against Medicines 2007

    Government spending on all types of prescription drugs (patented and non-patented) is increasing faster than any other component of health spending. And new or patented medicines tend to be more expensive compared to older drugs and other health ...

  8. Long-term or Short-term, Public Health Insurance is Not Sustainable

    Since 2004, the Fraser Institute has annually published a measurement of the financial sustainability of public health insurance in Canada called Paying More, Getting Less. Since 2004, The Fraser Institute has annually published a measurement of the ...

  9. Public Auto Insurance More Costly, Least Affordable: International Study

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, 12 October 2006 How many times have we heard someone say that public auto insurance is less costly for drivers? Such a claim runs counter to common sense: after all, who really believes a government-owned monopoly can ...

  10. Auto Insurance Market Quality Index 2006: Annual Comparison of International Auto Insurance Markets

    This study is the first effort by The Fraser Institute to measure and compare the performance of auto insurance markets across international jurisdictions. Previous Institute studies have only compared Canadian provinces with each other. However, this ...