Aspects of the Canada Health Act discourage provinces from emulating policies found in Australia, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
Health Care
August 23, 2016
3:38AM
The average Canadian family can expect to pay $11,494 this year for public health care.
July 20, 2016
9:45AM
Canada’s premiers are meeting in Whitehorse, Yukon this week and health-care transfers from Ottawa may be high on the agenda.
July 5, 2016
1:45PM
Canada will increasingly be an outlier among developed countries.
June 28, 2016
12:45PM
Province contracted-out select day surgeries to private clinics, expanding total surgical capacity in a short period of time.
June 20, 2016
1:36PM
Other countries deliver high-performing universal health care at similar (or lower costs) than in Canada.
June 14, 2016
3:00AM
High level of spending has not yielded high value in return—Canada has some of the longest wait times for treatment in the developed world.
May 31, 2016
5:04PM
Canadian Medicare did not start out as a national institution. It started in one province, Saskatchewan, and spread to others over the years.
May 18, 2016
11:47AM
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) the quality of health insurance plans in the United States has gone down, while premiums have gone way up.
May 2, 2016
9:01AM
Canadian health-care bureaucrats will likely be asked to explain Canada’s single-payer system to U.S. campaigns.
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