March 8, 2013 – In her Economy Lab blog for The Globe and Mail, MLI Senior Fellow Linda Nazareth writes about the economic significance of baby boomer couples living apart. Hear what she has to say in her full column copied below: Can baby boomers afford to live apart from their significant others? By ...
March 6, 2013 – The Globe and Mail’s Jeffrey Simpson cites MLI’s recent paper on health care reform by former Saskatchewan NDP finance minister Janice MacKinnon in his latest commentary on patient user fees in Canada. In the paper, MacKinnon argues that user fees, if properly designed, should help finance health care and Simpson agrees. If user fees ...
February 7, 2013 – The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente interviews MLI author Janice MacKinnon, former Saskatchewan NDP Finance Minister, in a new commentary on health care reform. The op-ed is based on MLI’s recent study, Health Care Reform From the Cradle of Medicare, by Ms. MacKinnon. Read the full Globe and Mail op-ed below. ...
February 1, 2013 – MLI’s latest study on health care reform by former Saskatchewan NDP Finance Minister Janice MacKinnon has been all over the news. In an op-ed for iPolitics, “From medicare’s cradle, sane ideas to save the system,” well-known political commentator Tasha Kheiriddin writes about the study and highlights Ms. MacKinnon’s recommendations. In the ...
January 31, 2013 – In a study released today by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, former Saskatchewan NDP Finance Minister Janice MacKinnon argues that providing health care for all Canadians while encouraging a robust economy will require a more efficient system with better methods of funding in future years. In the study, she points to a number of solutions ...
Costs, including for hospitals, are crowding out other needed spending while creating inter-generational unfairness. Solutions include more provincial-led reforms such as use of efficient private clinics and indirect user fees. MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, January 31, 2013 – “As the oldest of the baby boomers turn 67 this year, the ‘fiscal squeeze’ looms larger and it’s ...
June 29, 2012 – In the National Post today, chairman and CEO of medcan Shaun Francis highlights MLI’s report, First, Do No Harm: How the Canada Health Act Obstructs Reform and Innovation, in an op-ed about reforming medicare. The full column is copied below. Shaun Francis on reforming medicare: What would Tommy Douglas do? By Shaun ...
June 26, 2012 – MLI’s latest report on the Canada Health Act by Jason Clemens and Nadeem Esmail, First, Do No Harm: How the Canada Health Act Obstructs Reform and Innovation, is the subject of a latest editorial in the Ottawa Citizen. In “Enough health-care studies“, the editorial accepts and promotes the two main arguments in ...
June 21, 2012 – In today’s Calgary Herald, MLI’s Jason Clemens and Nadeem Esmail say, ”The federal government must revise the Canada Health Act in order to provide the provinces with greater clarity and flexibility regarding reforms to provincial health care.” They add that this can be done by observing the successes of other universal health care countries. The ...
MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, June 19, 2012 – Canada’s provinces could experiment with better ways to finance and deliver universal health care if the federal government removed shackles in the Canada Health Act (CHA) that create a barrier to such reform, two authors argue in a paper released today. In a Macdonald-Laurier Institute paper entitled, First, ...
