Category: hospital beds

Cory Morgan: Health-Care in Canada: It’s Not the Spending Model That’s Broken, It’s the System

Commentary The story is the same in every province in Canada. Emergency rooms are overwhelmed, hospitals are short-staffed, and ICU space can never seem to keep up with extraordinary pressures whether they be from a local disaster, a flu outbreak, or a spike in COVID-19 cases. Waiting lists for medical specialists continue to grow while…


Why Our Health System Treats Canadians Poorly

Commentary Former B.C. deputy minister of health Lawrie McFarlane’s July 24 commentary on the “Cambie Surgery Centre ruling” (a descriptive that ignores two cancer patients and three children who were co-plaintiffs) contained some valid commentary. The crisis we now face in our health system is there for all to see and observe. Notably, McFarlane offers…