Healthcare

The task force report on financing Quebec's health system is making headlines across the country. It sets out recommendations to cure some of what ails public health care. This editorial from The National Post suggests the report is just what Canada's public health care system needs to get better.

This CP story picked up from the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal explains that governments need to spend money on research to understand the health care system, before it can save money on fixing it.

In this follow up story to a series on public health care funding, reporter David Shipley asks AIMS how the government can save money in health care. Acting president Charles Cirtwill explains that government needs to spend money on research into what's happening inside the system, before it can fix the problems with the public health care system.

In this front page story in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, reporter David Shipley examines patient-focused funding for public health care. He turned to AIMS Fellow in Health Care Economics Brian Ferguson for expert analysis.

Rural (and urban) communities are seeing a decline in health care service. In an article for Making Waves magazine AIMS Fellow in Health Care Policy, David Zitner, and AIMS Board member, Dianne Kelderman examine how introducing some private health care can help solve this problem.

AIMS Fellow in Health Care Economics, Brian Ferguson, examines the ability of consumer health co-ops to address local needs within a system that often overlooks them.

AIMS Fellow in Health Care Policy, David Zitner, looks at the way we measure health care in Canada. Too often we focus entirely on the costs without looking at the outcomes.

AIMS board member Dianne Kelderman examines the need for an increased level of innovation in the Canadian health care system.