Walberg said the results suggest provinces like Alberta are spending enough money on health care and should consider changing the way they pay for the system. For instance, she argues the province should scrap the current system where hospitals receive a yearly budget in favour of an incentive-based system where facilities are paid for the services they provide.
Year: 2008
Three Questions For Ontario Candidates
The vice is tightening on Ontario and unfortunately the federal government is doing much to help it close. Ottawa is still taking about $80 million every working day from Ontario to fund subsidies, including equalization, for Manitoba, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces.
Canada’s Healthcare Lags Far Behind Europe: Study
Story from The Canadian Press discusses the results of two studies released by FCPP: the Canada Health Consumer Index 2008 and the Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index 2008.
Radical Environmentalists Part of Economic Meltdown
The saddest comment is that business and industry have the capability to deal with environmental issues in an honest way.
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Process, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Accountability and Transparency Inspectorate, ‘PEEATI’
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Leaving Reserve More Likely to Bring Success: Study
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Why Alberta Is Not Ontario
Alberta’s early influences were different. European settlement came mostly later with a different mix of immigrants especially early in 20th century, so few migrants to Alberta had any ancestral fear of Americans.
Still Feeding The World
He has little patience for “well-fed utopians who live on Cloud Nine but come into the Third World to cause all kinds of negative impacts,” by scaring people and blocking the use of biotechnology.
Too Big A Bite
“Our comparison makes it abundantly clear that we can best express the sincerity of our intentions to help the poor by expanding the value of their basic exemption from income taxes. … In fact, the numbers show that increased exemptions work spectacularly better than minimum wages or tax credits in meeting the goal of improved incomes.”
Report Analysis Suggests Ways to Improve Aboriginal Outcomes
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released a background paper analysing Indigenous Well-Being in Four Countries: An Application of the UNDP’s Human Development Index to Indigenous Peoples in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.
Indigenous Peoples from an International Perspective
The study shows that Canada’s First Nations are doing better in terms of life expectancy, health and educational attainment, although progress in median income is inconsistent.
Healthcare Can’t Improve Until Its Structure Is Changed
Patients need the power to make choices. When they can do that, wait times will shrink, outcomes will improve and spending will be constrained. Tilting at the straw men of privatization and parallel systems does nothing to advance the debate. We deserve better.
An Answer for When Ontario Comes Calling
Ontario is straining under the weight of carrying much of Canada’s dysfunctional federal transfer programs.