Reading Time: 3 minutes Out of control spending on Ontario’s drug plan could undermine efforts to provide coverage to all those in Ontario and across Canada
Category: Health
Why Canada needs universal pharmacare and how to make it happen
Reading Time: 3 minutes Prescription drug coverage for all would save lives, save billions of dollars, help businesses – and make our incomplete health system whole
Caring for the body, mind and soul in the great outdoors
Reading Time: 3 minutes Time spent in the natural world nourishes our soul, makes us more receptive to goodness and beauty, helps us perceive truth, and opens us to the presence of God
More isn’t always better: making better health-care choices
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians have more than one million unnecessary medical tests, treatments and procedures every year. But we can improve patient outcomes and save resources
Mental health system ignores those with developmental disabilities
Reading Time: 4 minutes Almost half of those with developmental disabilities are diagnosed with mental illness or addiction and are among the most frequent visitors to ERs
Ontario traps those with disabilities in lives of poverty
Reading Time: 4 minutes Restrictions on assets and gifts keep many in a state of deep and profound uncertainty and crisis, but other provinces have found a way out
Regulating marijuana is a fool’s errand
Reading Time: 3 minutes The good news: an absurd prohibition on pot is about to end. The bad news: the Trudeau government has tied itself in knots
The stone cold truth: marijuana clouds reality
Reading Time: 3 minutes Contrary to decades of marijuana proponent propaganda, it’s not a drug like alcohol or caffeine. It’s very purpose is intoxication
Waiting for emergency care – how long is too long?
Reading Time: 4 minutes New study sheds light on an old problem in Canada’s hospitals and suggests that strategies to shorten wait times should be considered
Sick and tired (and in pain) over health-care wait times
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canadian Institute for Health Information annual tracking of waits for priority procedures is a reminder of how little has changed and how far we have to go