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Canada’s Health Care Woes: Waiting Lists, Outdated …

WEBBeyond rationing care using waiting lists, Canada’s monopoly health care also underinvests in equipment and staff. Canada has 35% fewer acute care beds than the US, (18) and …

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Entrepreneurship and Universality: The Way Forward for Health

WEBThe MEI’s Health Policy Series aims to examine the extent to which freedom of choice and entrepreneurship lead to improvements in the quality and efficiency of health care …

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Real Solutions for What Ails Canada’s Health Care Systems

WEBThe Quebec government, through Health Minister Christian Dubé, will soon present its plan to overhaul the health care system. The MEI is proud to unveil this major study by …

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Shortening Approval Delays for New Drugs: A Safe

WEBThe first of these is the conditional compliance pathway, for which Health Canada reduces the target timeline to 200 days. (14) Between 2015 and 2019, though, the average delay …

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The Benefits of Pharmaceutical Innovation: Health, Longevity …

WEBHealth status and productivity are also positively affect-ed by pharmaceutical innovation. Work days lost and school days missed per year because of illness or injury in the U.S. …

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The Positive Role of Profit in the Field of Health Care

WEBThe MEI’s Health Care Series aims to examine the extent to which freedom of choice and private initiative lead to improvements in the quality and efficiency of health care …

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The Benefits of Pharmaceutical Innovation: Health, Longevity, and

WEBAlthough the costs of new pharmaceuticals are often the subject of critical media coverage, they are rarely juxtaposed with the benefits that these new drugs bring. Among other …

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Improving Access to Health Data in Quebec – IEDM/MEI

WEBIt is hard to believe that in 2022, health data is still being communicated between institutions and departments via fax in Quebec. According to this MEI publication, …

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Pharmaceuticals: Life-Saving Benefits That Pay for Themselves

WEBBetween 1995 and 2012, life expectancy at birth in Canada rose by 3.6 years, from 78.0 to 81.6, while hospital use, measured in discharges per capita, decreased by 25%, largely …

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Healthcare in Canada 2021 – IEDM/MEI

WEBMedia release – Canadians are ready for genuine health care liberalization. Montreal, December 2, 2021 – While the Canadian health care system’s capacity to treat more …

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In 2019, the World Health Organization Argued Against Lockdowns

WEBSeveral days ago, the Montreal Economic Institute published a study looking at the flawed projections that were used to justify Canada’s generalized lockdown.. In the study, we …

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Healthcare in Canada 2020 – IEDM/MEI

WEBMedia release – Poll: Canadians want to increase health system capacity. Montreal, November 10, 2020 – With Canadians locked down to varying degrees in order to keep …

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The Nurse Shortage in Quebec: Improving Flexibility and …

WEBTHE NURSE SHORTAGE IN QUEBEC: IMPROVING FLEXIBILITY AND WORKING CONDITIONS. By Emmanuelle B. Faubert. In 2021, Quebec’s Health Minister said that …

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Pharmacies in Canada: Accessible Private Health Care Services …

WEBThere are a little over 9,000 private pharmacies in Can-ada. The majority of these (about two thirds) are associ-ated with a chain or banner (see Figure 2-1). The remain-ing third …

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Healthcare in Canada 2023

WEBTo what extent do you agree or disagree with the following: The rate of spending increase in my province’s public healthcare system is unsustainable Base: All respondents 2023 …

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A Prescription for Quebec’s Doctor Shortage – IEDM/MEI

WEBThe shortcomings of health care systems across Canada have been thrown into stark relief by the pandemic, with surgery backlogs making headlines again of late. A lack of …

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The Nurse Shortage in Quebec: Improving Flexibility and Working

WEBQuebec’s Health Minister expects the shortage of nurses to grow to 28,000 by 2026. Such data show that while wages are an issue, they are not the only or even the main source …

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Bill 15: Quebec is centralizing again – IEDM/MEI

WEBMontreal, March 29, 2023 – The creation of the Santé Québec agency will reduce the autonomy of facilities and do nothing to keep nurses from leaving the profession, warns …

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Private Medicine in Quebec – IEDM/MEI

WEBThere’s no need to panic about private medicine in Quebec (The Gazette, December 5, 2013). Oui, le privé peut aider en santé! (MEI’s Blog, Journal de Montréal, December 7, …

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Lifting the Ban on Duplicate Private Health Insurance in Quebec

WEBThe Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Quebec’s ban on duplicate health insurance was indeed unconstitutional. Based on the evidence provided, the Court concluded that there …

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The economic case against mergers: The idea that larger …

WEBThe economic case against mergers: The idea that larger municipalities save money with economies of scale is largely a myth

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Cinq faits clés qui militent contre la poursuite du confinement

WEBLe oint – Cinq faits clés qui militent contre la poursuite du confinement RÉFÉRENCES 1. Worldometer, Coronavirus, United States. 2. Eran Bendavid et al., « COVID-19 Antibody …

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