Healthcare Posts

In Defence of Canadian Healthcare

August 7, 2009

Canada's health-care system has come in for a drubbing in the battle over U.S. health-care reform. Critics, many of ...

Mythbusting Canadian Health Care — Part I

August 7, 2009

2008 is shaping up to be the election year that we finally get to have the Great American Healthcare Debate again. ...

Obama’s AARP Town Hall on Healthcare Reform

August 7, 2009

On July 28th, President Obama hosted an AARP town hall webcast to pitch his reforms to older Americans. He assuaged ...

Shona Holmes: The New Figurehead for the American Anti-Public Healthcare Campaign

August 7, 2009

Holmes is the new figurehead for the American anti-public healthcare campaign: she’s testified before Congress, ...

How Does Canada’s Health System Actually Work?

August 7, 2009

OTTAWA — Canadians can be of two minds about their public health care system. Tommy Douglas, a former premier of ...

How Does Canada’s Health System Actually Work?

August 7, 2009

OTTAWA ; Canadians can be of two minds about their public health care system. Tommy Douglas, a former premier of ...

PET Scan Update

August 6, 2009

The Ontario government just announced that PET scans will be publicly funded for certain cancer and cardiac patients ...

A Canadian doctor diagnoses U.S. healthcare

August 3, 2009

Universal health insurance is on the American policy agenda for the fifth time since World War II. In the 1960s, the ...

Zombie Myths about the Health Costs of Aging

July 17, 2009

Newsflash! Another newspaper announces that Canada’s aging population will bankrupt us. U.S. economist Edward ...

The Patients Doctors Don’t Know

July 16, 2009

As they do every July, hospitals across America are welcoming new interns, fresh from medical school graduation. Given ...