Health Care
- MLI Senior Fellow Linda Nazareth in The Globe and Mail: Can baby boomers afford to live apart from their significant others? March 8, 2013
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...
- The Globe and Mail writes about patient user fees and cites MLI's recent paper on health care reform March 6, 2013
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 ar...
- The Globe and Mail highlights MLI's study on health care reform: Saskatchewan knows what Tommy Douglas would do February 7, 2013
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 Cr...
- iPolitics, CBC News, Huffington Post Canada, CTV News, and Global News cover MLI's recent study on health care reform February 1, 2013
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 polit...
- Latest MLI study on health care reform by former Saskatchewan NDP Finance Minister Janice MacKinnon on CTV News, Global News and much more January 31, 2013
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 effi...
- Time to overhaul the delivery and funding of health care, MacKinnon says January 31, 2013
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 OTTA...
- National Post op-ed makes extensive mention of MLI's report on reforming the Canada Health Act June 30, 2012
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 copie...
- Ottawa Citizen editorial endorses MLI paper on healthcare reform June 26, 2012
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 healt...
