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House Calls, #1027, August 30, 2026: Canadian health care system survey illustrates the contradictions and clear tension between diagnoses of systemic failure and preferred solutions (or non-solutions)
The majority of Canadians, according to this latest survey view our health care system to be in crisis yet offer solutions that have repeatedly failed as if expecting the same remedy will just work this time around. There is also a tinge of hypocrisy within some of these viewpoints that I discuss in my op-ed.…
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House Calls, #1024, August 2, 2026: Your health taxed to the limit.
Joining me today is Nadeem Esmail, Director, Health Policy at the Fraser Institute. We discuss their latest report, The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2026. How much of our taxes go to health care? Do we get value for our dollars? How does this compare to other universal health care systems in the world…
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House Calls, #997, January 11, 2026: Enter at your own risk!
Our Hospital systems are in crisis. They cannot handle any sort of overload and this has become Crystal Clear during the flu season. Patients are now being warehoused in ambulance bays with beds separated by sheets. The healthcare professionals are faced with trying to provide care in less than optimal conditions. And yet, it is…
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House Calls, #987, October 26, 2025: Oh where or where has our healthcare gone?
A Fraser Institute report reveals that Canada’s health care system is continuing to decline compared to other 31 other OECD countries that have universal health care systems. When are we going to say that we need to emulate what they do instead of continuing to ride the same old train. Reference: Comparing Performance of Universal…
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Sunday House Call, #870, March 19, 2023: The Fall of the Health Care Dominoes
Two to three times per week, I receive emails from various medical organizations like the Ontario Medical Association, the Ontario College of Family Physicians, The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and read news stories propagated by interviews with academics and health researchers all of whom have advice and recommendations on how to improve…
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Sunday House Call, #864, February 5, 2023: Blatant Hypocrisy: Some publicly-funded family practices are more equal than others. How your tax dollars do not go towards the goal of equity in health care.
In today’s show, I explain how the bleating from those that insist that equity in health care is of utmost importance will cling to their private insurance plans that provide access to health services that are not available to those uninsured Canadians. In Ontario, there are different tiers of publicly-funded family medicine practices, some that…
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Small steps in right direction to reduce the backlog of surgeries in Ontario with OHIP-funded private surgical centres. No different in terms of funding when you go to see your family doctor in their private offices and use your OHIP health card.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 17, 2023 Source:Ontario releases 3-step plan to invest in private care to reduce surgical backlog
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Sunday House Call, #860, November 27, 2022: We are just a bunch of slackers (yes sarcasm).
Words and actions matter. The latest spin on the edict to come down from the Ontario Ministry of Health precisely describes what they think of physicians, their disrespect for us, and complete disconnect from the reality practices face with limited resources and no reasonable solution from them forthcoming even though, at least for family practice,…
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Why Ontario is reducing doctors’ payments for one-off virtual appointments. And what it could mean for your health care. Dogma supersedes doctor shortage reality.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 19, 2022 Source:Why Ontario is reducing doctors’ payments for one-off virtual appointments. And what it could mean for your health care