Reading Time: 3 minutes Given that infections don’t by a long shot equal hospitalizations, civil libertarians are rightly sounding warning bells
Tag: Ontario health care
Putting patients first can save Canada’s health system
Reading Time: 3 minutes Patients First could be an incredible moment for health sector leaders to dramatically reshape how health care is delivered
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
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
Sustainable pharmacare requires a business-like approach
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
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
Private dental care fails millions in Ontario
Reading Time: 4 minutes Every three minutes someone visits an Ontario doctor for oral health issues. But physicians aren’t trained or equipped to provide appropriate treatment
One in six Ontarians left behind in health-care reforms
Reading Time: 3 minutes Urban poor and new immigrants are less likely to be part of a family health group – and less likely to get high-quality care
Forging a new deal for doctors requires a new approach
Reading Time: 4 minutes Should we move to a system like that in the U.K., where physicians are paid a salary and work to terms of a contract?
Health-care spending increases point to unsustainable future
Reading Time: 3 minutes Provincial governments need to start re-examining how their health-care dollars are spent or implementing meaningful health-care reform now