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More of the same health care mantra plays soothing music to dogmatic government policy in new report
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 18, 2011 [display_podcast] Source: Top economist warns Canada against two-tiered health care
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Sunday House Call, #348, April 24, 2011
Sunday House Call, #348, April 24, 2011 An interview with Brett Skinner, President and director of Health Policy Studies at the Fraser Institute, about the state of our health care system and proposals to mitigate its unsustainability. Your comments about our system and questions about spinal stenosis, pain in the right hand, hip replacement surgery,…
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Sunday House Call #288, November 1, 2009
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Paying More, Getting Less 2008
Each year the Fraser Institute updates its report on the sustainability of medicare based on the most recent five-year trends. We invite Brett Skinner, Director, Health and Pharmaceutical Policy Research and Insurance Policy at The Fraser Institute to join us every year to review the findings in his report Paying More, Getting Less 2008. Brett…
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Ontario government taken to court over right to access prompt health care services
A Statement of Claim has been filed by the Canadian Constitution Foundation against the Ontario Government over timely access to health care and the patient’s right to access health care outside of Ontario’s government-run health care system. The claim supports two Ontarians who had successful surgery to remove brain tumours who had to pay for…
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President of the CMA, Dr. Brian Day
Health care reform especially as it applies to private and public provision is a topic that evokes strong sentiments, passionate discourse, arguments and unfortunately personal attacks, sometime quite vicious and malevolent. No stranger to being on the receiving end of the vitriol, the new president of the CMA is clear, we must ensure that Canadians…
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Access Delayed, Access Denied 2007 report
A caller to Sunday House Call recently enquired about the drug approval process and why there seems to be certain medications available in other countries but not in Canada? According to a report entitled Access Delayed, Access Denied published by The Fraser Institute, Brett Skinner, Director, Health, Pharmaceutical and Insurance Policy Research states that “the…
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Recommendations to ease emergency room overcrowding
Reports are surfacing of staff shortages in emergency rooms in smaller communities. There are backlogs of patients waiting in emergency rooms until they are admitted to a hospital ward acute care bed. It is a chain of events and circumstance stemming in part from a shortage of these acute care beds and the result is…
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The Misguided War Against Medicines
What proportion of our health care costs does each sector of our health care system consume and what are their growth rates? This answer to question is germane to governments facing serious health care budgetary constraints. There is an argument put forward that hospitals and prescription medication costs are the principle contributors to a system…