The current state of Canadian healthcare: Dr. Shawn Whatley with Arlene Bynon
Dr. Shawn Whatley, Munk Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and practicing physician, joined Arlene Bynon to discuss the current ...
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User fees would improve efficiency and equity in Canada’s overburdened health care system
OTTAWA, ON (July 21, 2022): After user fees were abandoned in 1984, Canadians failed to see an improvement in the delivery ...
Our National Healthcare Is Struggling, Can The Premiers Get A Handle On It? Dr. Shawn Whatley on ON Point
Guest host Rubina Ahmed-Haq is joined by Senior Fellow Dr. Shawn Whatley, a practicing physician & Author of When Politics ...
MLI paper finds Canada’s drug price controls hurt both innovation and Canadians’ access to medication
OTTAWA, ON (June 2, 2022): The PMPRB, a regulatory body formed in 1987, was never a principled policy initiative targeted ...
Court support for drug price controls will hurt health care: Richard C. Owens in the Financial Post
This article originally appeared in the Financial Post. Below is an excerpt from the article, which can be read in ...
The Mazankowski report, 20 Years Later
As Canada grapples with an increasingly unsustainable health care system, the Mazankowski report’s bold proposals continue to resonate 20 years ...
How to fund a health care system on life support
According to one of Canada’s foremost tax experts, Jack Mintz, the way Canada pays for medicare is unsustainable. Rather than ...
Want to fix Canada’s crippled health system? We’ve had the plan for 20 years
With the pandemic exposing Canada’s underperforming, beleaguered health care system, a new MLI commentary by Janice MacKinnon looks back on ...
Canadians will pay a heavy price as Ottawa cuts drug costs
A new MLI commentary warns that pending and aggressive drug price control efforts could lead to major unintended consequences in ...
How to get Canada off the health-care teeter-totter: Shawn Whatley for The Hub
Medicare does not struggle for lack of ideas or funding. It struggles from funding thrown at the same tired ideas ...
Pandemic mistrust may eventually improve health care: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
If there is one prediction to make from the COVID-19 pandemic, health care will be a major issue for Canadians ...
Saskatchewan model shows private clinics have a role to play in public health care: Janice MacKinnon in the National Post
Private clinics can provide quality services at a lower cost than comparable hospital-delivered services, writes Janice MacKinnon in the National ...
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Unfortunately for Canadian consumers and creators, the Online Streaming Act is performing exactly as predicted: Peter Menzies in the Hub
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Mexican cartels are a direct threat to Canada’s public safety, and the future of North American trade: Gary J. Hale for Inside Policy
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Canadians are very unhappy with the federal public service—and for good reason: Tim Sargent in The Hub
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An economist on Ottawa’s GST holiday. Spoiler alert – Santa Claus is not real: Tim Sargent in the Globe and Mail
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Canada is an energy superpower. It’s time to remind America and act like it: Heather Exner-Pirot in The Hub
