No need to choose between lower taxes and health care
MICHEL KELLY-GAGNON: Contrary to what many commentators have been claiming for years, the failings of the health system are not due to “chronic underfunding”
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Tag: Health care reform
Bureaucracy may be necessary, but it is never harmless
SHAWN WHATLEY: There is nothing that bureaucracy cannot make worse
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Health care user fees promote equity and efficiency
SHAWN WHATLEY: Twenty-eight countries have universal healthcare. Twenty-two of them have some form of cost sharing. User fees offer one example
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Are Canadians drinking too much alcohol?
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Report recommends drinking an average of zero to two alcoholic drinks per week to reduce the possibility of suffering adverse health outcomes
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Tone-deaf politicians ignore the realities of health care
SUSAN MARTINUK: Canada’s health-care system continues to implode and fail patients at a catastrophic level. But you wouldn’t know by listening to politicians
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Hospital woes continue to mount – nothing new here
KRYSTLE WITTEVRONGEL: More money won’t solve the systemic, pervasive, and structural issues that plague Canadian health care
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Why our health system treats Canadians poorly
BRIAN DAY: For our population of 35 million, we have 11 public health bureaucrats for every one in Germany. And their system outperforms us in every way
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Canadian health care at a crossroads
SUSAN MARTINUK: It’s time to stop talking about money and start talking about changing health care
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Canada’s health-care system is irretrievably broken
SUSAN MARTINUK: Drastic changes are needed. Millions of Canadians on wait lists know that. Why don’t politicians?
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Why health care can’t change
SHAWN WHATLEY: When it comes to fixing health care, governance matters more than policy
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Alberta First Nation clinic will cut health-care wait times
JOSEPH QUESNEL: During the pandemic, we clearly learned that Canada’s health-care system isn’t prepared for substantial surges in demand
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Quebec’s ailing health-care system
KRYSTLE WITTEVRONGEL and MARIA LILY SHAW: More than 20% of Quebecers currently don’t have a family doctor, resulting in overcrowding of hospital emergency wards and the long wait times
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