health care costs

Cost-control measures are wishful thinking, says health policy expert

The tough choices that aren’t being made

The Maclean’s Ottawa looks back at the week with a nod to the news to come

You’d never know how popular they are from their salaries

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s decision to lay down the law, rather than open up negotiations, on health care transfers from the federal government to the provinces might have been a tad undiplomatic. But there’s only so much anyone can say about the etiquette of federal-provincial relations without losing all contact with reality, and that leaves us with numbers, not niceties, to consider.

Health policy needs closer scrutiny