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Media Release
January 20, 2016 – Canadian governments must rethink healthcare on five areas of national priority, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Challenging Vested Interests: National Priorities for Healthcare,” authors Åke Blomqvist and Colin Busby find that compared to the healthcare systems of a large group of peers, Canadian systems do not produce enough high-quality care for…
Op-Ed
Today, provincial and federal health ministers are meeting in Vancouver to negotiate a new health accord. Given the underwhelming results of the previous accord, and the mounting challenges facing today’s provincial health systems, they have their work cut out for them. Canada’s health-care system ranks in the median on a number of OECD performance measures, but is one of the highest spenders on…