Canada has fewer MRI and CT scanners than the average high-income OECD country with universal health care.
Health Care
October 25, 2016
3:20AM
If provincial finance ministers are convinced they require more funding for health care, they have the ability to raise that revenue themselves.
October 20, 2016
2:25PM
Canadian patients may be denied new innovative drugs and other health technologies emerging for the treatment of chronic diseases such as cancer.
October 18, 2016
2:36PM
The opposition of the two U.S. presidential candidates to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) threatens progress on trade issues including intellectual property protection.
October 17, 2016
12:54PM
Donald Trump’s characterization of Canada’s health-care system as “catastrophic” may be political hyperbole, but we cannot ignore the huge problems that plague our system.
October 14, 2016
12:16PM
Canada imposes complete government control over people's access to medically necessary care.
October 12, 2016
4:00AM
Diseases such as rabies, malaria and leprosy still afflict many in less-developed countries.
September 30, 2016
8:34AM
In 2014, Canadian physicians reported that patients faced an 18.2 week wait from referral by a general practitioner to receipt of treatment.
September 26, 2016
3:05AM
With the freedom to innovate, provinces experimented with a wide range of welfare reforms.
September 20, 2016
12:40PM
Dr. Brian Day, former head of the Canadian Medical Association, is currently fighting to allow private treatment for patients.
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