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.
Rebecca Walberg
Ontario’s Nanny State
Ontario wants to use the law to stop parents from smoking in front of kids in their cars.
The Castonguay Report Shows the Way Forward for Healthcare in Quebec
This report defines some concrete steps the Quebec government can take to rise to the challenge. All Canadians interested in the future of our healthcare system should watch carefully to see what components are implemented, and how they fare. The Castonguay report liberates the debate from the orthodoxy of the Canada Health Act and suggests evidence-based changes that have been proven elsewhere. If health ministers elsewhere pay attention, Claude Castonguay may be remembered not only as a father of but also as one of its rescuers.
First Nations Pathologies Can’t be Solved with More Government Money
The deaths by exposure of two Saskatchewan native girls can be traced to a culture of dependence that was created by decades of government mismanagement.
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Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
Capitation – An Answer for our GP Shortage?
The healthcare system needs more family physicians. Simple changes to the payment system have a better chance of short-term success, and will on balance make health care more effective and less expensive.
Dumont’s Path to Healthcare Reform
It took a court case in Québec to open up the healthcare market to private insurance, and another one’s on the way for Alberta. Why don’t politicans step up to the plate? The people are ready fr it.
The Primary Care Problem
We can order a book and have it delivered without ever going out the door. Yet access to primary healthcare is still a function of yesterday’s practices and technologies.
The Wal-Mart Revolution
Our review of Richard Vedder and Wendell Cox’s book, The Walmart Revolution.
Medical Tourism Puts Consumers First
Problems with Medicare and poor service are forcing more and more Canadians to become medical tourists. We need to bust open the monopoly to include that choice and others.
Infusion Clinics Benefit Patients
Many Canadian cities now house “infusion clinics,” where individuals can bypass bureaucrats and purchase promising IV treatments out of their own pockets.
In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State
Our book review of Charles Murray’s In Our Hands
A Nation of Serfs? How Canada’s Political Culture Corrupts Canadian Values
Most Canadians, educated in government-run schools, informed by publicly funded media, and taxed to the breaking point, are sure that massive state power and omnipresent government are the Canadian way. A Nation of Serfs? will astonish and anger readers with this...
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
Frontier’s book review of Mark Steyn’s America Alone