Better Medicine
Better Medicine: Reforming Canada’s Health Care, published in April 2002, is a brilliant collaboration of essays by some of Canada’s leading authorities in health care policy.
Improving Canadian Health Care
Improving Canadian Health Care takes a serious look at the alternative mechanisms available to introduce new money into the health care system in Canada.
Medicare, the Medical Brain Drain and Human Resource Shortages in Health Care
Brett Skinner argues that as Canadian medical professionals begin to realize the degree to which the public health care monopoly exploits their services and suppresses their earnings, the more likely it is that they will leave this country for the US.
Fiscal Equalization Revisited
In this paper, the "father of equalization" Professor James Buchanan returns to his original contribution to our knowledge of federalism and adds the perspective for which he is most famous: public choice.
The Benefits of Allowing Business Back Into Canadian Health Care
The Benefits of Allowing Business Back Into Canadian Health Care provides a review of the direction of health policy reforms in the rest of the world that indicates that Canadians are not alone in preferring balanced approaches to health policy reform.
What’s A Degree Worth
Atlantic Canadian taxpayers give substantial financial support to our region’s university students. Similarly, students invest considerable resources in time, tuition fees and forgone income, to get their university degrees. But what value do taxpayers and students respectively get in return for their investment? And does each contribute to the cost of a university degree in proportion to the benefit they receive from it?
Testing and Accountability
Accountability, not money, is the key to improved student performance say the authors of AIMS’ report “Testing & Accountability: The Keys to Educational Excellence in Atlantic Canada" It is clear that taxpayers, and the students they help support, are getting less for their investment in education than they deserve and certainly less than their counterparts in some other provinces.
Having Our Gas and Selling it Too
This third paper in AIMS Oil and Gas Series underlines that while natural gas markets in other jurisdictions across Canada and the continent are quite mature, here in Atlantic Canada natural gas has a virtually zero market share.
Public Health, State Secret
Dr. David Zitner and AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley demonstrate that politicians and senior health officials simply don’t know where or why medicare is failing because they still lack the proper tools to evaluate the quality or timeliness of the care Canadians receive.
Taking off the Shackles
This enlightening study by Kenneth J. Boessenkool, a senior policy analyst now based in Ottawa, outlines a win-win strategy to reduce the overall cost of equalization and put more money into the hands of the provinces in the long term.