By Ruth Lopert and Steve Morgan Canada’s healthcare system, Canadian healthcare system, Canadian medicare, cost of drugs, drug cost, Drug coverage, health care spending, health service funding, NAFTA, national drug plan, Pharmaceutical, positive innovation
A version of this commentary appeared in the Toronto Star, Ottawa Life and the Huffington Post A “modernized NAFTA” has significant implications for many sectors of the economy — and health care is one of them. What’s at stake? Canadians’ right to universal access to affordable medicines. When negotiating with the U.S. and Mexico, Canadian […]
By Ted Bruce and David Peters access to health care, Canada healthcare system, Health care costs, healthcare funding, heathcare, politics, positive innovation, public health care, social spending, success
Recently, the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) celebrated the fact that the average lifespan of Canadians has increased by more than 30 years since the early 1900s. That’s something we can all celebrate.
By Ryan Meili and James Hughes access to health care, Canada healthcare system, Health care costs, healthcare funding, heathcare, politics, positive innovation, public health care, social spending, success
Investing in social programs improves social conditions and, as a consequence, improves people’s lives. That’s fairly obvious. What hasn’t always been as obvious, however, is that such social spending doesn’t tend to come at the cost of economic growth.
By Ryan Meili access to health care, Canada healthcare system, determinants of health, failure, Health Accord, Health care costs, healthcare funding, heathcare, politics, positive innovation, public health care, success
Later this month, Canada’s Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Philpott, will meet with her provincial and territorial counterparts in Vancouver. This is no ordinary get-together.
Saskatoon’s housing crisis Is a health emergency
By Michael Schwandt and Ryan Meili affordable housing, Canadian economy, determinants of health, diagnosing poverty, failure, housing, positive innovation, poverty, poverty markers, public health care, success, Why our governments need to address poverty now
Recently, a disturbing photo of five people sleeping in a Saskatoon bank lobby became headline news and filled social media feeds.
Basic Income: Just What the Doctor Ordered
By Danielle Martin and Ryan Meili Canadian economy, Child poverty, diagnosing poverty, failure, positive innovation, poverty, poverty markers, public health care, success, Why our governments need to address poverty now
What makes people sick? Infectious agents like bacteria and viruses and personal factors like smoking, eating poorly and living a sedentary lifestyle. But none of these compares to the way that poverty makes us sick.
By Canada’s healthcare system, Canadian economy, Canadian healthcare system, failure, health service funding, Podcasts, positive innovation, public healthcare, success
The health care system in Canada is not always perfect. Mistakes are made, but Dr. Joshua Tepper believes it is critical we learn from past healthcare mistakes in order to improve the quality of services.
Is it finally time for a national drug plan?
By Livio Di Matteo Canada’s healthcare system, Canadian healthcare system, Canadian medicare, cost of drugs, drug cost, Drug coverage, health care spending, health service funding, national drug plan, Pharmaceutical, positive innovation
A new study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal with health economist Steve Morgan as lead author argues a national universal care drug program would not result in substantial tax increases. Indeed, such a plan reduces public and private spending on prescription drugs by $7.3 billion annually – or by 32 percent.
By Joshua Tepper and Danielle Martin Canada’s healthcare system, Canadian economy, Canadian healthcare system, failure, health service funding, positive innovation, public health care, success
Forty is the new thirty. Orange is the new black. And Failure is the new success.
It seems these days that no success story is complete without a failure (or two) along the way: the bankruptcy that gave birth to a successful company; the entrepreneur who lost it all just before hitting the Fortune 500.
Growing income gap poses a health risk to all
By Ryan Meili Canada’s healthcare system, Canadian economy, Canadian healthcare system, failure, health service funding, income inequality, positive innovation, Public health, public health care, success
Certain Canadian commentators are bringing forth a strange critique of public health, suggesting that physicians and public health experts, charged with caring for the health of Canadians, should not concern themselves with the root causes of illness and stick to a narrow range of health interventions.