What we mean when we talk about private health care: Brian Ferguson in Inside Policy
In order to have a serious discussion about health care Canadians need to understand the difference between private supply and private funding, writes...
“The case for health care reform has been building for several years”, Speer tells CTV
A court case challenging a government ban on Canadians paying for private health care coverage will hopefully spur progress toward fixing a broken...
Sean Speer and Ian Lee health care paper reported by Bill Curry in Globe column
Sean Speer and Ian Lee produced a thought-provoking Macdonald-Laurier Institute paper suggesting that health-care reform could be modeled after the recent changes made...
Building A Fairer, More Sustainable Health-Care System For Canada: Sean Speer in the Huffington Post
Canada's health-care system is less egalitarian than we think, argues Sean Speer in the Huffington Post. Refinancing through a means-testing approach will make...
Fixing the holes in Canada’s leaky health care system: MLI paper by Sean Speer and Ian Lee
MLI paper offers solutions for making Canada’s health care system more equitable and sustainable OTTAWA, July 19, 2016 – Canada’s much-celebrated health-care system...
Opening Canada up to world-class health care reform ideas: MLI video with Brian Lee Crowley
Sweden, Switzerland, Korea, Japan, Taiwan - and Saskatchewan - all present options for breaking through the stagnant debate about medicare OTTAWA, March 31,...
Pushing the provinces towards health care reform: Commentary by Brian Lee Crowley and Sean Speer
Latest entry in “From A Mandate For Change To A Plan To Govern” shows how the federal can carve out a place in...
MLI health care video #2: Real and imagined barriers to reform
Second entry in our series on Canadian health care examines why reform is so difficult OTTAWA, Nov. 12 – Canada’s health care system...
Fullerton in Inside Policy: Reviving health care as an election issue
When it comes to new ideas on curbing rising health care costs, our political parties are paralysed. Dr. Merrilee Fullerton says it’s time...
Canada should import health-care reform ideas from Asia: Peng and Tiessen in the Citizen
Writing in the Ottawa Citizen and Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Macdonald-Laurier Institute authors Ito Peng and James Tiessen write that ideas from Asia will help break...
