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Mai 7, 2020 11:44AM

U.S. COVID experience highlights risks of centralized management of health care
Steven Globerman
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U.S. COVID experience highlights risks of centralized management of health care

The mortality rate per 1 million U.S. residents was 196 compared to 30.5 worldwide.

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COVID, healthcare, health-care, us health care
Avril 14, 2020 2:40PM

COVID creating a backlog of cancelled elective surgeries in Canada
Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir
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COVID creating a backlog of cancelled elective surgeries in Canada

Treatable conditions may turn into more permanent debilitating conditions.

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COVID, elective medical treatment, health care wait times
Janvier 31, 2020 1:30PM

Other universal health-care countries allow private health insurance—and have shorter wait times

Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua, Steven Globerman
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Other universal health-care countries allow private health insurance—and have shorter wait times

Australians can purchase private insurance for heath-care services.

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universal health care, universal health insurance, health care wait times
Janvier 24, 2020 11:44PM

Kenney reforms may reduce health-care wait times, like in Saskatchewan
Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir
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Kenney reforms may reduce health-care wait times, like in Saskatchewan

Alberta hopes to mirror Saskatchewan’s successful wait time-reduction.

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saskatchewan, health care saskatchewan, health-care wait times in Canada, alberta health care
Novembre 8, 2019 9:15PM

If doctors can’t help their parents, what good are they?

William Watson
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If doctors can’t help their parents, what good are they?

Big Brother himself thrived on Big Data.

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health insurance, doctors, Canada health care system, healthcare
Septembre 13, 2019 11:11AM

Private health insurance, not government bureaucracy, spurs health-care innovation
Steven Globerman
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Private health insurance, not government bureaucracy, spurs health-care innovation

In Australia, Italy and the United Kingdom, private insurance allows patients a wider choice of providers and faster access to health care.

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private health care, private health insurance, private insurance
Mars 14, 2019 11:41AM

Is Ottawa competent enough to design an efficient and effective national pharmacare program?
Dr. Nigel Rawson, Bacchus Barua
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Is Ottawa competent enough to design an efficient and effective national pharmacare program?

A national formulary—essentially a list of drugs—is unlikely to match the comprehensive lists covered by private insurance plans.

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canadian health care, pharmacare, preferred drug lists, access to new drugs
Mars 13, 2019 8:57PM

Private sector helping address physician scarcity in the U.S.
Steven Globerman, Bacchus Barua
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Private sector helping address physician scarcity in the U.S.

A 1991 report recommended a 10 per cent reduction in medical school enrolment in Canada.

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access to health care, physician supply, healthcare, canadian health care system
Janvier 11, 2019 12:32PM

Pharmacare ‘cost-savings’ should not trump appropriate drug use
Dr. Nigel Rawson
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Pharmacare ‘cost-savings’ should not trump appropriate drug use

Cancer drug's use in retinal therapy has been linked with increased risks of stroke and death.

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pharmacare, fair pharmacare, drugs, new medicines, patients
Novembre 1, 2018 11:01AM

When pharmaceutical innovators take risks, we end up with new drugs that lengthen our lives
Yanick Labrie, Vincent Geloso
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Nobel laureate Paul Romer’s key new insight was that human capital can produce ideas.

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intellectual property, pharmaceuticals, access to new medicine, patients, new prescription drugs

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