Essential Reading - Media Articles
April 07, 2009, There's a fly in the ointment of Ouellet's health-care cure, By Matt Borsellino, The Medical Post.More
February 10, 2009 - The hip bone's connected to the wallet - Three good reasons why private clinics don't work, By Julie Mason. The Ottawa Citizen - More
January 08, 2008 - Canadian health care better and cheaper than U.S., says research; By Joanne Laucius - CanWest News Service;
Ottawa Citizen - More
November 15, 2007 - Baby boomers won't overload health system: - By Aaron Derfel - Montreal Gazette More
August 24, 2007 Flawed premise on health care - Editorial - Toronto Star - More
August 15, 2007 - What Canadians should learn from the U.S. health care disaster - Arnold S. Relman - Special to Globe and Mail Update - More
August 15, 2007 - National Health Service Consultants' Association letter to Dr. Brian Day, President-elect, Canadian Medical Association - "From our UK perspective we have tried [Payment by Results and use of private companies to deliver NHS care] and they have proved a mistake. We urge you to learn from our experience and to re-consider." - More
August 14, 2007 - Health care: the case for two tiers -- a rebuttal - M.Schwandt and T. Wuerz, Special to The Regina Leader-Post - More
August 1, 2007 Toronto Star Editorial - New fight looms over medicare - More
August 1, 2007 Globe and Mail Editorial - The CMA errs on private payment - More
July 26, 2007 - Johnson promises to limit private sector in the NHS - Daily Telegraph; ALAN JOHNSON, the new [UK] Health Secretary, laid out his plans for the National Health Service yesterday, promising that the involvement of the private sector would be limited. - More
July 19, 2007 - Longer wait times in US - Even Aetna admits US system 'is not timely'.
Straight Goods - Dateline: Thursday, July 19, 2007, Reposted: Monday, July 23, 2007
From Physicians for a National Health Program
Waiting times in US hospitals and clinics are becoming so lengthy that even one of the nation's biggest insurers, Aetna, has admitted to its investors that the US healthcare system is "not timely". - More
