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Statistics Canada finds deficiencies in Canadians’ health, which governments must address now

  • The Canadian health-care system has been deteriorating over many years to the point of crisis. Holistic, proactive health policy actions are urgently required.
Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | September 25, 2023
Then-Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, pictured in 2022. Fourteen per cent, or 4.7 million Canadians, do not have regular access to a primary heath caregiver. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Statistics Canada finds deficiencies in Canadians’ health, which governments must address now

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | September 25, 2023
  • The Canadian health-care system has been deteriorating over many years to the point of crisis. Holistic, proactive health policy actions are urgently required.

Statistics Canada finds deficiencies in Canadians’ health, which governments must address now

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | September 25, 2023
  • The Canadian health-care system has been deteriorating over many years to the point of crisis. Holistic, proactive health policy actions are urgently required.
Then-Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, pictured in 2022. Fourteen per cent, or 4.7 million Canadians, do not have regular access to a primary heath caregiver. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Health care in Canada is in crisis

  • None of the issues affecting our health care are new. What's new is its continuing deterioration to the point of crisis and the broadening
Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID WALKER, DAVID JONES | July 3, 2023
Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, centre, at a June 19, 2023, press conference. Nothing much seems to be going on to fix the problems with our quickly eroding public health-care 'system,' write the authors. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Health care in Canada is in crisis

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID WALKER, DAVID JONES | July 3, 2023
  • None of the issues affecting our health care are new. What's new is its continuing deterioration to the point of crisis and the broadening

Health care in Canada is in crisis

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID WALKER, DAVID JONES | July 3, 2023
  • None of the issues affecting our health care are new. What's new is its continuing deterioration to the point of crisis and the broadening
Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, centre, at a June 19, 2023, press conference. Nothing much seems to be going on to fix the problems with our quickly eroding public health-care 'system,' write the authors. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

House committee’s health workforce report has critical gaps left to be filled

  • The House Health Committee's report is welcome, but deficient in its lack of specific recommendations on actions to alleviate the current crisis and prevent
Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | March 29, 2023
Premiers attend a press conference in Ottawa on Feb. 7, after the release of the federal government’s updated health-care deal with provinces. The forthcoming bilateral federal-provincial health-care funding agreements provide an opportunity and mechanism to formally look at intergovernmental collaboration. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

House committee’s health workforce report has critical gaps left to be filled

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | March 29, 2023
  • The House Health Committee's report is welcome, but deficient in its lack of specific recommendations on actions to alleviate the current crisis and prevent

House committee’s health workforce report has critical gaps left to be filled

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | March 29, 2023
  • The House Health Committee's report is welcome, but deficient in its lack of specific recommendations on actions to alleviate the current crisis and prevent
Premiers attend a press conference in Ottawa on Feb. 7, after the release of the federal government’s updated health-care deal with provinces. The forthcoming bilateral federal-provincial health-care funding agreements provide an opportunity and mechanism to formally look at intergovernmental collaboration. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Does ‘pay more, get less’ make sense to you?

  • Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, the myth endures that Canada has a system of health-care services that is among the best in
Opinion | BY DAVID WALKER, DUNCAN SINCLAIR | March 6, 2017
Canadians are spending more money than people do in other developed countries, the United States excepted, for health-care services that are nowhere near the best, write Duncan Sinclair and David Walker. The Hill Times photograph by Kristen Shane

Does ‘pay more, get less’ make sense to you?

Opinion | BY DAVID WALKER, DUNCAN SINCLAIR | March 6, 2017
  • Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, the myth endures that Canada has a system of health-care services that is among the best in

Does ‘pay more, get less’ make sense to you?

Opinion | BY DAVID WALKER, DUNCAN SINCLAIR | March 6, 2017
  • Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, the myth endures that Canada has a system of health-care services that is among the best in
Canadians are spending more money than people do in other developed countries, the United States excepted, for health-care services that are nowhere near the best, write Duncan Sinclair and David Walker. The Hill Times photograph by Kristen Shane

Here’s how health care should look in the 21st century

  • Canada needs both “top-down” and “bottom-up” leadership to create a genuine system to meet our 21st century needs for health and health-care services at
FeatureBY DUNCAN SINCLAIR | March 6, 2017
Gov. Gen. David Johnston with members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) on the sidelines of a panel discussion on mental health for Bell Let’s Talk Day in January. Duncan Sinclair writes that mental health should be among the insured health services guaranteed to all Canadians. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Here’s how health care should look in the 21st century

FeatureBY DUNCAN SINCLAIR | March 6, 2017
  • Canada needs both “top-down” and “bottom-up” leadership to create a genuine system to meet our 21st century needs for health and health-care services at

Here’s how health care should look in the 21st century

FeatureBY DUNCAN SINCLAIR | March 6, 2017
  • Canada needs both “top-down” and “bottom-up” leadership to create a genuine system to meet our 21st century needs for health and health-care services at
Gov. Gen. David Johnston with members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) on the sidelines of a panel discussion on mental health for Bell Let’s Talk Day in January. Duncan Sinclair writes that mental health should be among the insured health services guaranteed to all Canadians. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
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