Reading Time: 3 minutes There are provincial winners and losers in the changing world of the Canada Health Transfer and the future could hold even larger discrepancies in funding
Category: Health
Mapping the route to more effective health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes To improve value and spur innovation, we need to change the way we pay for health care by encouraging those providers who experiment and innovate
Junk food ads bombard teens, putting them at risk
Reading Time: 3 minutes Proposed restrictions on food and beverage advertising to kids should include youth up to age 16. We need to give healthy eating habits a fighting chance
It’s time to talk about a BIG idea to end poverty
Reading Time: 3 minutes A basic income guarantee would ensure every Canadian has money to meet basic needs for food, shelter, heat and clothing – and it would ensure better health
We’re neglecting our responsibility to kids in care
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why do we expect youth with the complex traumas associated with growing up in care to stand alone? Supporting young people to 25 years of age is essential
Health-care wait times cost patients millions in time, wages
Reading Time: 3 minutes The consistent lengthening of wait times for treatment makes us sometimes forget our system forces people to suffer while waiting for timely access to care
Free medicines for rich kids is a fair and efficient policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Universality is no free ride for the rich. If everyone pays, say, a one per cent income tax for universal drug coverage, the millionaire will pay much more
Starting with kids defensible step toward universal pharmacare
Reading Time: 4 minutes But Ontario budget commitment won’t solve all the problems of drug access in Canada, not even in Ontario
What Canada can learn from Australia on health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are elements to adapt and ones to avoid, from pharmacare, to home care, to hospital efficiency and funding, to a mix of private and public health delivery
What Trump’s agenda means for Canadian health care
Reading Time: 4 minutes Without provisions strengthening health care under NAFTA, U.S. companies could claim the right to a Canadian private health-care market