Reading Time: 4 minutes Smart health-care cards would reduce costs and free up doctors’ time
Tag: Health care reform
B.C. stuffs doctors’ mouths with gold: $135,000 raise
Reading Time: 3 minutes Will they take the money and run or stick to their principles?
Crowded emergency rooms adding hidden costs to health-care system
Reading Time: 3 minutes Overburdened emergency physicians tend to order more tests for less-severe patients
Nursing school students not ready for digital transformation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Need better education to keep up with the fast pace of innovation
No need to choose between lower taxes and health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes Failings of the health system are not due to chronic underfunding
Bureaucracy may be necessary, but it is never harmless
Reading Time: 4 minutes There is nothing that bureaucracy cannot make worse
Healthcare user fees promote equity and efficiency
Reading Time: 4 minutes Offer a small step to solving overconsumption and waste
Are Canadians drinking too much alcohol?
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new report recommends a person only drink an average of zero to two alcoholic drinks per week
Tone-deaf politicians ignore the realities of health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes Political expediency once again trumps the realities of fixing health care
Hospital woes continue to mount – nothing new here
Reading Time: 3 minutes More money won’t solve the systemic, pervasive, and structural issues that plague Canadian health care