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February 2006: Comparing Public and Private Health Care
Canada’s public health care system has 10 clear advantages Proponents of turning more of Canada’s public Medicare system over to private care providers could only…
Public solutions to health care wait lists
Waits for care are the biggest political issue facing Canadian health care—a priority reflected in the accord reached by the federal and provincial health ministers…
Genuine solutions to health care wait-time problem lie in the public sector
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—A study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that there are public sector solutions…
An open letter to the CBC in response to “Medicare Schmedicare”
Dear Sirs and Madams: Last week John Doyle of the Globe and Mail told us that the CBC had decided not to air a documentary…
Don’t count out medicare yet
Beware of stumping politicians with poker faces and empty hands These days, public health care seems like a high-stakes TV poker game complete with bluffers…
December 2005: Monitoring Medicare’s Murder
Public awakens to assassination of Medicare, but is it too late? The slow, very public murder of Medicare as a universal, publicly-funded, single-tier health system…
The GATS and South Africa’s National Health Act
A Cautionary Tale Download 341.76 KB40 pages This new study shows how South Africa’s flagship health legislation conflicts with binding commitments the former apartheid regime…
November 2005: Cancer—The Price of Progress
Industrial pollution cancer just another cost of doing business My concern about the rising incidence of cancer prompted me to start writing a book in…
October 2005: Supreme Court Jeopardizes Women’s Right to Health
Jurists’ private insurance ruling especially negative for women On June 9, 2005, a bare majority of justices of the Supreme Court (four of seven) overturned…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2005, Volume 8, Number 3 Download 703.22 KB8 pages Inside this issue: After the Referendum: What Next for Electoral Reform? Maximizing Benefits from the…
September 2005: What’s Your Poison?
Life in a toxic environment is getting ever more precarious Smog-alert days this past summer were more common than days when the air was marginally…
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