Guest Commentary: A Win for Health Care Consumers
The Supreme Court of Canada decision on health care spurred commentaries across the country. The Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg called it a win for health care consumers.
The Supreme Court of Canada decision on health care spurred commentaries across the country. The Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg called it a win for health care consumers.
The New Brunswick forestry industry may soon be starving for wood. In his fortnightly column in the Moncton Times-Transcript, Brian Lee Crowley explains the government needs to loosen its hold on crown land. Otherwise the forestry industry, a major economic generator for the province, will falter and fail.
The Nova Scotia government started on its road to gas re-regulation to appease consumers indignate over gasoline at a dollar plus a litre. But as Brian Lee Crowley explains in his fortnightly column in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, the road has veered off course and now heads to even higher gas prices for consumers.
The Atlantica concept envisions the International Northeast as a corridor linking the new Asian seaborne trade with major North American markets. It is not just a theory or a concept. On July 1, a wide range of retail goods including apparel, electronics and furniture set sail for Halifax using an all water route from Asia and the Indian Sub-continent via the Suez Canal. This announcement by the Port of Halifax and the Canadian Retail Shippers’ Association (CRSA) is a major contribution to making Halifax and the International Northeast a distribution hub for goods using the Suez route to reach eastern and central North America from Asia. If the Port of Halifax performs well in this new role as distribution centre, this decision by the CRSA could be the first of many of its kind.
Health care takes centre stage in this latest edition of the Beacon as policy makers, thought leaders, regional and national media, and a new generation of health consumers all turn to AIMS to get the straight goods on drug reimportation, reporting on whether our hospitals actually make you better and, of course, the recent Supreme Court decision on the future of health care itself.
Businesspeople in Fredericton are the latest to question and welcome Atlantica. In this article in Fredericton's Daily Gleaner, proponents of the concept, including AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley, explain the steps needed to make Atlantica a reality.
Explanations of the Supreme Court of Canada decision on health care hit the blog circuit as fast as commentators hit the traditional media. AIMS' Fellow in Health Care Economics, Brian Ferguson, runs his own blog, "A Canadian Econoview". In this commentary on his blog, Ferguson lays out the reaction to and the reality of the Superior Court's decision.
The Supreme Court of Canada decision on health care had media across the country scrambling to find informed commentators. Many reporters turned to AIMS for that expert comment.
Depending on the person quoted, the decision by the Supreme Court of Canada to strike down portions of the Quebec Health Insurance Act, was either the end of health care as we know it, or a new beginning. In this commentary, AIMS' Manager of Health Policy, Jamie MacNeil, explains what this decision actually means. He says it is a wake-up call for governments to do things better in health care and honour the promises they've been making to Canadians for years.
AIMS tackles issue of quality of hospital care on behalf of patients and their families.