Reading Time: 3 minutes Migrating seniors are likely to have paid most of their lifetime taxes in one province while consuming most of their health care in another
Tag: Health care funding
There is nothing to fear from private health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes In fact, removing prohibitions would better utilize our health care professionals and reduce the suffering of those on long waiting lists
What should we pay for in our publicly-funded health system?
Reading Time: 3 minutes If we are going to invest more money, we should place it where we can improve people’s health, recognizing that more service is not always better
Making sense of health funding dollars and cents
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
Canada should stop living in the health-care funding past
Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments should work together to fund pharmacare, dental care and rehabilitation as part of an improved funding model
Don’t let seniors’ care in Canada become a private equity money maker
Reading Time: 4 minutes The pressure to make a profit in seniors homes often leads to cost-cutting measures such as reduced staffing that undermine the quality of care
Canada’s health-care wait times worst in developed world
Reading Time: 3 minutes To retain the promise of universal health care that Canadians cherish, we must change the way we attempt to deliver it
Medicine is not just a science, it’s an art
Reading Time: 4 minutes Good conversations between doctor and patient are good for the patient’s well-being
Canada has more doctors and health specialists than ever
Reading Time: 3 minutes But we don’t have ways to evaluate whether increasing the specialist workforce is always the best investment of our health-care dollars
Frailty a better gauge for health-care funding
Reading Time: 4 minutes New Health Accord should reject per capita funding model – and consider the precise and evidence-based concept of frailty instead