Saskatchewan’s Commission on Medicare brutally described the country’s health-care system last week in its report, Sustaining a Quality System.
Continue reading Fyke report’s missing link: health-care allowances
Pay-per-minute auto insurance
Pay-per-minute automobile insurance — a new approach that a major U.S. insurance company has tested in the Texas market — is a hit with consumers. On average, the hundreds of Houston-area drivers who signed up are saving 25%, and some — those who don’t drive much, or who are insuring a lightly driven second or third car — are saving up to 50% over what they had been paying for traditional automobile insurance.
Fixing health care from the bottom up
It isn’t brain surgery. Fixing medicare only seems complicated because the health-care bureaucracy devises convoluted reforms to maintain its control over one of Canada’s largest economic sectors. Any top-down plan will inevitably be next to impossible to administer efficiently. Continue reading Fixing health care from the bottom up
Road safety
Next month, a coroner’s inquest will investigate one of Canada’s worst-ever highway calamities – the fiery 84-vehicle crash last September on a stretch of the 401 between Windsor and London. That stretch, which took 8 lives on that occasion and many others before and since, is dubbed Death Alley. Other stretches on other Canadian highways have names like Killer Road. All told, 3000 Canadians lose their lives to traffic accidents each year.
Shots in the dark
Should we make peace with nature instead of trying to dominate it? An ancient philosophical dispute goes modern: the growing number of vaccines are one more target for increasingly well-educated and Internet-savvy health care consumers, who are wary of the magic bullets drug companies promote.
Coming soon to a subway near you: Part 4
The 20th century has been ruled by the automobile; the future belongs to urban transit. Continue reading Coming soon to a subway near you: Part 4
Coming soon to a subway near you: Part 3
The 20th century has been ruled by the automobile; the future belongs to urban transit. Continue reading Coming soon to a subway near you: Part 3
Coming soon to a subway near you: Part 2
The 20th century has been ruled by the automobile; the future belongs to urban transit. Continue reading Coming soon to a subway near you: Part 2
Coming soon to a subway near you: Part 1
The 20th century has been ruled by the automobile; the future belongs to urban transit. Continue reading Coming soon to a subway near you: Part 1
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