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Colin Craig - How Bad Is Canadian Healthcare?

Sep 18, 2024
57:26

Matt speaks with Colin Craig about the Canadian healthcare system, discussing its inefficiencies, long wait times, and potential reforms, while comparing it to healthcare models in other countries and offering practical suggestions for improvement.

References
  1. Health Reform Now - the documentary that informs much of this conversation:
    Link: https://secondstreet.org/new-documentary-health-reform-now/ 
  2. "Universal Health Care: What the United States Can Learn from the Experience of Other Developed Nations" Panel featuring Karen Davis
    Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2838163/

  3. "The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance for All Americans" by Laurence J. Kotlikoff
    Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Healthcare-Fix-Universal-Insurance-Americans/dp/0262113147

  4. "Cross-Border Healthcare"
    Link: https://www.pgeu.eu/cross-border-health-care/#:~:text=The%20Cross%2DBorder%20Healthcare%20Directive,provided%20certain%20conditions%20are%20fulfilled.

  5. "Analytical methods to assess the impacts of activity-based funding (ABF): a scoping review"
    Link: https://healtheconomicsreview.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13561-021-00315-1

  6. "Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2022 Report" by Bacchus Barua and Mackenzie Moyer
    Link: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wait-times-for-health-care-in-canada-2022

  7. "The Overton Window"
    Link: https://www.mackinac.org/OvertonWindow

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