Our Commentaries

Our Commentaries

Our expert advisors have written opinion pieces and health articles on important health policy topics, published in leading media outlets across the country. We are making these commentaries and articles available to everyone, free of charge, with a Creative Commons license, so that you may use them in your publication or on your website. See also our Commentaries in French. Download our free eBooks — a compendium of our commentaries: Navigating the Evidence: Communicating Canadian Health Policy in the Media, Making Evidence Matter in Canadian Health Policy, and Canadian Health Policy in the News: Why Evidence Matters.

Evidence is important to us, and we are committed to getting the evidence right — even when it can be interpreted in a number of ways. If you feel we have not represented the evidence accurately or fairly in these opinion pieces, please let us know. Browse our Commentaries by category, below, or view them all here.

	AGING POPULATION AND ITS POTENTIAL IMPACT			HEALTHCARE COSTS AND SPENDING
Food is medicine where malnutrition and frailty are concerned By Heather Keller and Leah Gramlich Putting patients first can save our health system By Kapil Khimdas and Danyaal Raza			Universal national pharmacare for Canada may offer a small personal loss for a few but a larger public gain By Robert Brown Women feel budget cuts the most By Shannon Sampert
	PRIVATE, FOR-PROFIT SOLUTIONS TO FUNDING AND DELIVERY			HEALTH IS MORE THAN HEALTHCARE
Moving forward on health care reform By Allan Maslove Canadians should modernize not privatize medicare By Bryan Thomas and Colleen Flood			“What gets measured gets done” By Jennifer Zwicker and Stephanie Dunn How one Manitoban began his journey into AIDS research By Shannon Sampert
	PATIENT FINANCING OF HEALTHCARE (THE PATIENT PAYS)			MORE CARE IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER
What the Democrats’ ‘Medicare for All’ plan could spur in Canada By Andrew Boozary and Danielle Martin Most Albertans skip dental visits because the price is too high — and they aren’t alone By Lorian Hardcastle			Food is medicine where malnutrition and frailty are concerned By Heather Keller and Leah Gramlich Obstetricians and gynecologists target reductions in unnecessary care that may harm patients and cost the health system By George D. Carson and Wendy Levinson
	SUSTAINABILITY			WAITING FOR CARE
There’s nothing like an American health care debate to make Canadians feel lucky By Danielle Martin Our healthcare system designed for the convenience of practitioners, not patients By André Picard			High rates of emergency and police services signal many adults and adolescents with autism in Canada are in crisis By Yona Lunsky and Jonathan A. Weiss Waiting for emergency care – how long is too long? By Alan Katz and Jennifer Enns
	PHARMACEUTICAL POLICY			MENTAL HEALTH
Universal national pharmacare for Canada may offer a small personal loss for a few but a larger public gain By Robert Brown Making sure our prescription medications are safe and worth taking By Jenna Wong and Robyn Tamblyn			Seeing Red on World AIDS Day By Suzanne Hindmarch and Michael Orsini Three years later: Robin Williams and reporting on the “S-word” By Britney Dennison
	OBESITY			INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMS
Teenagers at risk from junk food advertisements By Tom Warshawski and Mary Lewis In the fight for kids’ attention, parents don’t stand a chance By Monique Potvin Kent			What Canada can learn from Australia on health care By Stephen Duckett What does Trump’s agenda mean for Canadian health care? By Danielle Martin and Sandro Galea

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