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Current Published Articles
• Calgary Herald:
Canada Health Act failing
, says new CMA (Canadian Medical Assn) president, Dr. Brian Day
• Globe and Mail:
Public, private health should co-exist
, says CMA (Canadian Medical Assn)
• National Post Blog:
Full Comment
: Jonathan Kay on the need for all private health alternatives: The CMA is coming around
Related Press Releases & Linked Articles
• Oct 2007: The Fraser Institute:
Wait Times for Canadians
Needing Surgery Hit an All Time High of More Than 18 Weeks in 2007.
• Aug 2007: The Fraser Institute:
Wishful thinking
to believe Canada's current health care system is financial sustainable
• Aug 2007: World Health Organization (WHO):
Canada - National Expenditure on Health
• Jun 2007: Center for Medical Progress at the Manhattan Institute: "Michael Moore's sheer fantasy:
Canada's "world-class" healthcare system
"
• Apr 2007: Government Announcement:
Patient Wait Times Guarantees
• Feb 2007:
Conference on Timely Access to Healthcare
• Jan 2006:
CIMCA News Release
• May 2006: Vancouver Board of Trade releases report to heal a health-care system in crisis:
Media Release
Related Videos
• YouTube Short Video on Canadian Healthcare: "
Dead Meat
" Video on Wait Times: Is Canada's system really better than the USA's? by Stuart Browning
Archives
2006 Articles
• Globe and Mail:
A care guarantee to count on
: "It's not a question of who delivers the services, but whether or not that delivery is timely," say Senators, Michael Kirby and Wilbert Keon
• QR77AM Radio:
Calgary Group Plans To Sue Province Over Healthcare
: Calgary watchdog group is willing to fight for private health insurance for medically necessary procedures
• Calgary Herald:
Health lawsuit ignites debate
: Calgary patient Bill Murray, who bought two private surgeries after government denied him state-of-the-art hip replacements
• Calgary Herald:
Hip-deep in trouble
: Bill Murray launches lawsuit over right to surgery, wants province to pay up.
• Canadian Press:
Money not shortening wait times
: report released Mar 7/06 by Canadian Institute for Health Information
• Globe and Mail:
More surgeries, same waits, report says
: regarding Canadian Institute for Health Information's report
• Calgary Herald:
Patients Need Choice Not Mere Guarantees
: article regarding private health care insurance
• Globe and Mail:
Quebec could learn from Alberta
• Calgary Herald (Nigel Hannaford):
We'll all pay for this collapse
2005 Articles
• Calgary Herald:
When Rules Turn Silly
: regarding private health clinics in Canada
• Associated Press:
Canadian Health Care In Crisis
•
How Good Is Canadian Health Care
- 2005 Critical Issues Bulletin: An International Comparison of Health Care Systems
• Calgary Herald Editorial:
Is this the best they could do
: Wait-time suggestions hardly a heath-care guarantee
• National Post:
The wait continues
overview of wait-times
• Montreal Economic Institute:
Using Private Insurance to finance health care