It's Time To Scrap The Lhins

We can't afford any more millions and any more lives in the name of a bad idea. Enough is enough. In the mid-2000s, the Ontario...

Agony, Anguish, And Armageddon, Part Ii

Is there any way to stave off a system-wide apocalypse? In my last post , I pointed out that for all the attention given to #taxfairness...

It's Time To Panic About Long Term Care

No amount of micromanagement will prevent the collapse of the acute care system unless radical action is taken. The health care syste...

Data Is The New Cowbell

...or is it a smokescreen for inaction by policymakers? Unless you've been living under a rock for twenty years, you're proba...

The Czar Of All Health Care, Part Ii

Talk can wait. The Czar has fires to put out. Last time , I argued that the festering problems in health care needed strong, old-schoo...

Solving Healthcare Problems 101, Part Ii

Who should we turn to if we want smart public policies in health care? As I noted last time , health care systems, even at the local ...

So You're Saying We Need A New Approach?

The wrong answers to the wrong problems continue to be brought forward. It's been two weeks since Ontario's doctors sent a ...

An Open Letter To The Next Minister Of Health

With the Trumpocalypse just about six months away, I thought I'd take a moment to give politicians some unsolicited but useful advice. ...

One Asshole's (Informed) Opinion: Still Waiting After All These Years

Can you call something a crisis if it's been going on for 20 years? If you came of age in the 1990s like me, I imagine you'd feel...