Medicare Meltdown: The Canada Health Act is failing Canadians
The Canada Health Act transformed medicare. But 38 years on, it’s failing us. A new document to replace the Canada Health Act could be introduced to meet the demands of the 21st century.
Healthcare In Canada
Canada's health-care system is a laggard. Here's how the top-ranked countries do it
Study after study shows that Canada’s health-care system is being outperformed by other OECD countries that also provide universal coverage.
Medicare Meltdown: Canada used to have one of the best doctor ratios in the world. What happened?
An estimated quarter of Greater Victoria’s nearly 400,000 residents did not have a family doctor in February. In April, the wait times to see a doctor at a walk-in were the highest in Canada, at 161 minutes.
Medicare Meltdown: Is ‘liberalized’ care the answer to Canada’s health-care crisis?
Canada’s health-care system that appears to be in meltdown. How the provinces solve this problem, if they solve it, could set the course for Canadian health care for decades to come.
Why incentives-based federalism should be the future of federal health transfers
There is nothing preventing the federal government from coming up with its own indicators based on available provincial data and creating a new grant that would complement the existing Canada Health Transfer, which would remain operating as it has.
Janet Bufton: The pandemic shows we expect too much of governments and too little of ourselves
The experience of the pandemic has required some updating to libertarian priors about how much people are willing to sacrifice to help each other. But that doesn’t mean we need to abandon libertarian principles altogether.
When it comes to vaccine safety, let's examine the evidence, not demonize the questions
Analysis of the benefits of vaccination and the risk of infection has been plagued by junk science and political science both by proponents and opponents of vaccination.
Livio Di Matteo: Total health spending in Canada will reach $331B this year, driven by care deferred during the pandemic
We are in the curious position of being one of the biggest spenders on health in the developed world and yet marked by growing shortages of services as well as mediocre performance on many health indicator outcomes compared to countries that are spending less than we do.
Why is Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston spending so much money?
Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservative government in Nova Scotia has opened the taps, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try and fix the province’s flagging health-care system.
How can we explain excess deaths during COVID-19?
As we move forward into a post-COVID world, how do we evaluate why people have died during the pandemic? And how do we determine and mitigate our ongoing risk?