Health spending during COVID-19: It’s Complicated
While total health spending is up, there was a reduction in some aspects of health service provision and health spending during the pandemic.
While total health spending is up, there was a reduction in some aspects of health service provision and health spending during the pandemic.
Vaccine bonuses given by governments to encourage people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 are having no effect and could even be making some people less likely to get the shot.
We have gone from a great medication that can treat worms, but not cure COVID-19, to a new generation of promising antiviral drugs that could lessen the burden of this disease.
A prudential approach will never deliver the rallying cries and exciting headlines (some) politicians need, but it always offers the best performance.
During the campaign both the Liberals and Conservatives promised to invigorate innovation by funding a new agency.
Medicare does not struggle for lack of ideas or funding. It struggles from funding thrown at the same tired ideas rooted in similar political traditions.
There are serious questions about the relative benefits and drawbacks of imposing mask mandates on very young children at school.
An estimated 3.5 percent of the population is diagnosed with a “blood injection injury phobia.”
The Public Health Agency of Canada should eliminate as much of its programs that are duplicative of provincial public health organizations as possible.
Be it resolved, to promote public health, governments should mandate use of COVID-19 vaccines broadly in society. The following is adapted from remarks made by Paul Offit and Martin Kulldorff…
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