Donald Trump’s characterization of Canada’s health-care system as “catastrophic” may be political hyperbole, but we cannot ignore the huge problems that plague our system.
health care wait times
September 20, 2016
2:06PM
Our health-care system is expensive, delivers poor-to-modest results, and fails to achieve many of its laudable aspirations.
September 20, 2016
12:40PM
Dr. Brian Day, former head of the Canadian Medical Association, is currently fighting to allow private treatment for patients.
September 15, 2016
3:00AM
Aspects of the Canada Health Act discourage provinces from emulating policies found in Australia, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
August 31, 2016
9:09AM
On health care, despite a high level of spending, Canadians have comparatively poor access to technology and doctors, and long wait times for surgery.
July 20, 2016
9:45AM
Canada’s premiers are meeting in Whitehorse, Yukon this week and health-care transfers from Ottawa may be high on the agenda.
June 20, 2016
1:36PM
Other countries deliver high-performing universal health care at similar (or lower costs) than in Canada.
June 14, 2016
3:00AM
High level of spending has not yielded high value in return—Canada has some of the longest wait times for treatment in the developed world.
May 31, 2016
5:04PM
Canadian Medicare did not start out as a national institution. It started in one province, Saskatchewan, and spread to others over the years.
May 25, 2016
12:47PM
Health reform lessons can be learned from Saskatchewan.