Canadian Health Care: Diagnosis, Prognosis, Prescription
Canadian Health Care: Diagnosis, Prognosis, Prescription
About the Webinar
Bacchus Barua discusses Canada’s history with wait times, and proposes potential solutions based on the experiences of other universal health care systems.
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About the Speaker
Bacchus Barua
Bacchus Barua is Director of the Fraser Institute’s Centre for Health Policy Studies. He completed his BA (Honours) in Economics at the University of Delhi (Ramjas College) and received an MA in Economics from Simon Fraser University. Bacchus has conducted research on a range of key health care topics including hospital performance, access to new pharmaceuticals, the impact of aging on health care expenditures, and international comparisons of health care systems. He also designed the Provincial Healthcare Index (2013) and is the lead author of The Effect of Wait Times on Mortality in Canada, and Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada (2010–2014).