Deal with doctors
The only period of sustained spending restraint in the medicare era lasted for four years, ending in 1997. In that time, real per capita public sector spending on health care declined by about 1 percent …
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It's time to rethink Ottawa's role in health care
The federal government needs to leave the management of the health system to the provinces and focus on the one function that must be national: building a health information system that speaks unvarnished truths to …
Read MoreThe pandemic and the politics of long-term care in Canada
Sadly, it has taken hundreds of COVID-19 deaths for Canada’s long-term residential care to earn another day or two in the spotlight. For the moment we are in high dudgeon, searching for answers. There will …
Read MoreWhat Canada can learn from Australia’s COVID response
This temporary Saskatchewan expat is loving Melbourne this summer, for the reason many of the locals aren’t. It’s cool – not cool as in hip, but low-20s temperature cool. Great for running and biking and …
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