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Health-care roadblocks stymie patients: David Zitner in Troy Media

The Nova Scotia Health Authority lets an inefficient telephone system act as an important barrier to timely care, writes David Zitner.  By David...

 

August 31, 2020 at 6:33 pm read more

I Don’t Need a Crystal Ball to Know Your President’s Drug Importation Plan Will Flop: John Adams in Inside Sources

We Canadians urge our American friends to seek real solutions to current problems and not to embrace empty promises. The concept of cheap...

 

August 17, 2020 at 6:53 pm read more

The ‘Price of Caution’ during a pandemic: MLI Commentary by David Zitner

OTTAWA, ON (August 13, 2020): The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in our health care systems, but to what extent remains unclear. Moreover,...

 

August 13, 2020 at 1:48 pm read more

Drug prices can go too low: Richard C. Owens in the Financial Post

By determinedly reducing revenues Canada not only ensures the unavailability of existing medications, it sees to it that far fewer new ones will...

 

July 31, 2020 at 7:14 pm read more

Measuring Health and Managing Health Care Routinely and in Pandemics: David Zitner for Inside Policy

In the absence of COVID testing capacity, it is important to identify the most common problems in communities and the interventions that are...

 

July 30, 2020 at 7:54 pm read more

Rush to expand MAiD turns policy-making on its head: Harvey Schipper and Harry Swain in the Vancouver Sun

There is something troubling, even dangerous, about the way MAiD is evolving in Canada, and that is the absence of evidence, write Harvey...

 

July 13, 2020 at 8:29 pm read more

How pandemic modelling failed policy-makers, and how to do better: MLI Commentary by Harvey Schipper

OTTAWA, ON (July 9, 2020): The existing models for epidemics, which were used to trigger lockdowns around the globe in response to COVID-19,...

 

July 9, 2020 at 3:25 pm read more

The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board is selling Canadians a lemon: Nigel Rawson for Inside Policy

The federal government is pursuing an aggressive agenda using untried methods to regulate extremely low drug prices, writes Nigel Rawson. By Nigel Rawson,...

 

July 8, 2020 at 1:59 pm read more

COVID-19 Highlights Weaknesses in Canada’s System for New Medicines: MLI report by Rawson and Adams

OTTAWA, ON (June 18, 2020): The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed numerous weaknesses in Canadian health care, and as the world races for new...

 

June 18, 2020 at 1:39 pm read more

Don't let price controls delay access to a vaccine: Nigel Rawson and Olaf Koester in the Financial Post

Unless Ottawa guarantees the price or postpones the PMPRB revisions, manufacturers will not know whether a tendered price is compliant with the new...

 

June 3, 2020 at 2:49 pm read more
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