What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Survey after survey show that Canadians are extremely concerned about the state of our health care system. Yet each year millions and millions of dollars more are spent on health care, with little results. So what is going on? Where does all the money go? Does the number of dollars ...
A Third Option for the Health Care Debate
While the health care debate continues to heat up south of the border, Canadians still have very strong feelings about whether our publicly funded health care system is in need of a fix. Unfortunately, our political leaders, the news media, and many of the organizations currently active in the health ...
Use as Needed
Used properly, there is little doubt prescription drugs save the health care system millions of dollars a year. Just a generation ago an illness that could be completely debilitating or required months of hospitalization can now be treated with a drug that helps the patient live a full and productive ...
Single-Payer Health Care for Maryland
There are any number of adages that could be applied to the oft compared Canadian and US health care systems, but two come quickly to mind after reading this analysis - "Be careful what you wish for" and "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" ...
The potential of private sector health care in Canada
"Canada’s health care system is in trouble precisely because it lacks flexibility," concludes the latest background paper from the Canadian Health Care Consensus Group (CHCCG). Author Brian Ferguson, an economics professor at the University of Guelph and AIMS Fellow in Health Care Economics suggests that if we are to successfully address problems ...
