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Canada one of only 5 universal healthcare countries that fails to pay hospitals based on actual patient services

Money Following Patients: A Better Way to Pay for Universally Accessible Hospital Care is a new study that compares Canada’s health care funding model to that of 28 other countries that provide universally accessible health care. Only five—Canada, Ireland, Iceland, Luxembourg and New Zealand—still largely fund hospitals with lump sum payments, while all of the other 23 countries with have adopted per-patient funding models, otherwise known as activity-based funding.

Ontarians growing poorer compared to American neighbours; lags the regional GDP per person by $16,607

Measuring Ontario’s Regional Prosperity Gap is a new study that compares average incomes in Ontario, Quebec and eight American states in the Great Lakes region. It finds that in 2019, Ontario’s GDP per person trailed neighbouring Michigan by nearly $4,000, and in fact, Ontario lags the regional average GDP per person by $16,607, or 27.1 per cent.

Commentary and Blog Posts

2021 budgets establish uncertain future for government finances in Canada

by Jake Fuss, Alex Whalen, Steve Lafleur, and Tegan Hill

The Trudeau government forecasts a $154.7 billion budget deficit in 2021/22.

Conservative climate plan wildly oversimplifies and overreaches

(Appeared in the National Post) by Ross McKitrick

If you think we need to reduce CO2 emissions, use a single targeted policy to reduce CO2 emissions.

Greater school choice produces better student outcomes

(Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Matthew Lau

Imposing a monolithic conformity on all children through a monopoly school system is not a sensible way to serve a diverse population.

B.C. government imposes travel restrictions while COVID numbers fall

(Appeared in National Newswatch) by Niels Veldhuis

The seven-day moving average of new daily positive COVID cases has been decreasing since April 12.

President Biden’s first 100 days of tax and spend

by Daniel Mitchell

The president wants more than $2 trillion of new spending over the next decade.

What are the Trudeau government’s guiding priorities?

by Lydia Miljan

The prime minister disbanded the Expenditure Review Committee, which assessed the efficacy of government programs.

Ford government continues to mirror fiscal approach of its predecessors

by Ben Eisen

Over three years, nominal program spending will increase by a cumulative total of 8.5 per cent.

Trudeau government fuels economic uncertainty

(Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal) by Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis

The prime minister’s mandate letter raised the idea of taxing "extreme wealth inequality.”

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