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Health Care Commentary Archive

Nova Scotia can improve health care without breaking the bank
By Alex Whalen, Bacchus Barua | August 27, 2021
New report highlights Canada’s low health-care ranking among peer countries
By Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | August 12, 2021
Canada should permanently expand drug approval process in post-COVID world
By Dr. Nigel Rawson | July 13, 2021
Canada’s COVID performance on key measures among worst in developed world
By Livio Di Matteo | May 26, 2021
COVID-19 case counts, mortality rates vary widely across developed world
By Livio Di Matteo | May 26, 2021
Hospital reform would improve care for Canadian patients
By Nadeem Esmail | May 19, 2021
Eliminating patent rights for COVID vaccines will do more harm than good
By Steven Globerman | May 14, 2021
Provinces should ask for more health-care freedom—not more money
By Bacchus Barua, Ben Eisen | May 11, 2021
Health-care spending may spike by 88 per cent due to Canada’s aging population
By Steven Globerman | May 5, 2021
Long health-care wait times hurt Canadians in many ways
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | April 16, 2021
Non-COVID patients pay price for health-care backlogs
By Bacchus Barua | March 4, 2021
Health-care wait times in Canada hit record high in 2020
By Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | December 21, 2020
New Brunswick health-care wait times among longest in Canada
By Alex Whalen, Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | December 17, 2020
Trump executive order may limit access to prescription drugs in Canada
By Steven Globerman | December 2, 2020
Canadian health care performs poorly compared to other countries worldwide
By Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | November 12, 2020
New poll exposes key problems with any national pharmacare plan
By Bacchus Barua | October 30, 2020
COVID is superspreading convenient health care
By Dr. Jehangir Appoo | October 22, 2020
Massive surgery backlog latest symptom of Ontario’s health-care problem
By Mackenzie Moir, Alex Whalen, Bacchus Barua | October 15, 2020
National pharmacare will be very expensive and likely unnecessary
By Bacchus Barua | September 22, 2020
Throne speech may offer fundamental choice to parents about Canada’s future
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios | September 22, 2020
McNeil government should allow private sector to help reduce surgery backlog
By Mackenzie Moir, Alex Whalen, Bacchus Barua | September 21, 2020
Court ruling locks patients into government-run health care
By Nadeem Esmail, Bacchus Barua | September 16, 2020
Canadians should know how much we pay for health care
By Bacchus Barua, Milagros Palacios | September 3, 2020
Trudeau government move undermines COVID-19 response
By Kristina M.L. Acri, née Lybecker | August 6, 2020
Private clinics could help Alberta reduce health-care wait times
By Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | August 5, 2020