Ontario's Health Minister Erik Hoskins is a brave man. He has attempted to wrestle a new agreement with Ontario doctors and to drive down outrageous billing -- with some 500 doctors billing more than one million dollars a year. Hoskins wanted to redistribute these health dollars...

In 1928, a petri dish in Alexander Fleming's lab was accidentally contaminated by a mold spore, leading to the discovery of penicillin and, in time, a revolution in medicine. Deadly infectious diseases like pneumonia, meningitis and tuberculosis could now be reliably treated. Everything from childbirth, to transplant surgery, to chemotherapy...

National Medicare Week has just passed, buoyed with optimism as a fresh-faced government takes the reins in Ottawa -- elected partly on a promise of renewed federal leadership on health care. Yet these "sunny ways" are overcast by recent developments at the provincial level that entrench and legitimize...

Dear Minister Philpott,

It is fantastic news that as a family doctor you are our next federal health minister. You will know very well that our health-care system shows its age. Born in the middle of the 20th century, its primary focus on doctors and hospitals...

A long-running dispute between Dr. Brian Day, the co-owner of Cambie Surgeries Corporation and the British Columbia government may finally be resolved in the B.C. Supreme Court this year -- and the ruling could transform the Canadian health system from coast to coast.

The case emerged in...

Buried in the current omnibus budget bill being studied by Parliament is a plan to demote the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada. He will no longer hold a deputy minister rank, he will have no direct line to the federal minister of health, he will be subservient...

The latest Commonwealth Study ranked Canada's health care system a dismal second to last in a list of eleven major industrialized countries. We had the dubious distinction of beating out only the Americans. This latest poor result is already being used by those bent on further privatizing health...

So it looks like the 'magic bullet' solution has been found at last to cure Canada's health care woes: medical tourism. Last week, Toronto's Sunnybrook hospital defended its position to court affluent medical patients from other countries who can afford to pay generously for out-of-pocket care in a...

Canadians are proud of our universal public health care system, but a recent report from the Conference Board of Canada underscores the danger of resting on our laurels. Of 17 countries reviewed Canada has the fourth highest levels of health spending, and yet ranks only 10th in leading...