British Columbia’s Failed Healthcare Experiment

 Paying Doctors More Did Not Improve Primary Care – and Cost the Province Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Our first point of contact with the health system – often referred to as ‘primary care’ – should result in prompt and efficient care for our general health concerns, and coordinate our

Why American Doctors Are Calling For Canadian-Style Medicare

 And How Canada Risks Losing the Health Advantage it Has. In a dramatic show of physician support for deep health care reform in the U.S, more than 2,200 physician leaders have signed a “Physician’s Proposal” calling for sweeping change. The proposal, published May 5 2016 in the American Journal of

How Basic Academic Research Leads to Innovation

 Many high-profile Canadian innovations in health care were discovered by academic – not industrial – researchers There’s a disconnect between Canada’s capacity to innovate and our capacity to commercialize those innovations – or so the story goes. It’s been repeated so often it’s become a mantra in certain circles, and