This might seem an odd moment for a senior doctor to call for a switch in the way that the NHS is financed. Yet that is what Bernard Ribeiro, the new president of the Royal College of Surgeons, has done. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph published on August 13th, he argued that a tax-based system will be unable to cope with future health-care demands. Instead, Britain ought to emulate the social-insurance model of Germany and France, in which the main source of finance is contributions levied on workers’ pay.
Year: 2005
Getting Results from Markets
One of my favorite movie quotes is Hayley Mills’s line in Pollyanna, “When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.” And that’s what Mr. Stracher and many others do. While you’re busy looking for the bad, you miss so much of the good.
Fretting over a U.S. decline? Fear not
OTTAWA -- In the 1960s, it was Germany. In the 1980s, Japan. Throughout the postwar years, until the 1990s, it was the Soviet Union. Now it's China. A devastated nation starts from nothing, introduces market-economy reforms, goes to double-digit growth -- and people...
The Free-Marketeers Rise Up
Even when the economy is in bad shape more and more think tanks get launched
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy!
COVID-19 Emergency Powers Nearly Limitless
The war against the invisible enemy of COVID-19 has unfortunately made normal rights and freedoms invisible as well. Another example manifested on September 13 when Saskatchewan’s premier renewed emergency orders for his province. The list of powers he claimed were so...
Kyoto’s Outcome in One Word
In the most recent budget, the Liberal government has set aside $5-billion to spend on its climate change strategy. Money is allocated into funds designed to buy emission credits (which can be used to help Canada meet its Kyoto target), develop technology and help provinces build or refurbish infrastructure.
Corporate Income Tax Undercuts Prosperity: Task Force
Corporate income taxes are a drag on productivity and should be eliminated, an Ontario task force says
Native Land Policy Faces Overhaul
Breaking with the traditional communal approach to first nations’ lands, the federal government will endorse private ownership of land and housing on reserves as part of a package of new aboriginal policies to be unveiled this spring.
Melbourne 2030: A Vision Far Too Timid
Across Australia, and to a lesser extent in urban areas outside, there is a rush to make the city more compact — urban consolidation it is called in Australia.
U.S. Ruling Big Win for Canadian Hog Farmers
The trade commission’s ruling will remove a double-digit interim duty that threatened to cripple the industry. It’s also expected that Manitoba producers will get back $25 million they have already paid in duties, according to the Manitoba Pork Council
Garden Chemicals and Intellectual Honesty
The Frontier Centre’s “farmer boy” locks horns with a Ph.D in ad hominems.
Philippe Cyrenne, Economics Professor, University of Winnipeg
A committed supporter of Medicare considers how it might be improved, and tramples a few Canadian orthodoxies.
Private Healthcare in the OECD – PowerPoint
PowerPoint slides that accompany the speech on by Professor Cyrene at a March 15, 2005 Breakfast on the Frontier.
Flying Windmills
The next great energy technology may well be involve implausible-sounding machines called Flying Electric Generators, windmills 30,000 feet high and tethered to the ground by power lines. These windmills would capture the plentiful power in the strong, steady winds that blow in the jet stream