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1. Canada's Physician Shortage: Effects, Projections, and Solutions

   This Fraser Alert looks at three dimensions of Canada's physician shortage. It begins with a short review of the literature examining whether or not a greater supply of physicians provides benefits other than easier access to care. The next section ...

2. How Good is Canadian Health Care? 2005 Report

   This 2005 edition of How Good is Canadian Health Care? provides answers to a series of questions that are important to resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends its health care policies. In this study, we primarily compare Canada to ...

3. How Good is Canadian Health Care? 2004 Report

   This second edition of How Good is Canadian Health Care? provides answers to a series of questions that are important to resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends its health care policies. In this study, we primarily compare Canada to ...

4. The Rebirth of Medicare in Saskatchewan: Steps Toward an Accessible, High Quality, and Sustainable Health Care System

   In June 2000, Saskatchewan conducted a major review of its health care system and issued its report in April 2001. The provincial government also invited comments from the public and health care providers; more than 100 individuals and organizations ...

5. Health Care Waiting List Initiatives in Sweden

   In Sweden, excessive waiting times for elective surgery have been a persistent and much-debated problem for many years. Between 1987 and 1997, four different national policy approaches attempted to reduce waiting lists and thereby improve the quality of ...

6. The Swedish Health Care System

   The Swedish health care sector expanded rapidly during the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s, the nation experienced budget deficits and increasing problems with long line-ups. It became evident that global budgets and a lack of incentives to be efficient ...

7. Premiers Want Money...Not Accountability

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press Six weeks ago, on this page, I lamented Roy Romanow’s failure to propose creative reforms to our country’s health care system. He simply demanded $15 billion more federal transfers to provinces, while expanding ...

8. How Mean is a Pharmacare Means Test?

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Faced with a crowd of 2,000 seniors protesting in front of the provincial legislature last Tuesday, the provincial government reneged on its commitment to a means test for Pharmacare benefits. This is a bad sign. Seniors ...

9. The Fantasy of Reference Pricing and the Promise of Choice in BC's Pharmacare

   For defenders of government-run health care, the existence of provincial drug benefit plans is actually a blot on Canadian health care, in that they are not part of single-payer, first-dollar coverage, medicare (National Forum on Health, 1997:22). When ...

10. Medically Uninsured Americans: Evidence on Magnitude and Implications

    Within the United States, the image of the medically uninsured being denied important medical treatment stirs the emotions of the American public, while the issue of how to address this problem has bedevilled American politicians throughout the 1990s and ...