Category Archives: Publications

13 Jun

Message from Guest Editor Wayne Taylor – July edition of Healthcare Management Forum

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By Dr. Wayne Taylor

It is almost a certainty today that every so-called “healthcare system” in the world rations care in some manner, whether by price point of insurance as in the private part of the American healthcare system or by government fiat as in Canada. This issue of Healthcare Management Forum (HMF) looks at what happens when care

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31 May

Protecting Canadians from Excessive Drug Prices – Consultation Questions

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By Dr. Wayne Taylor

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has produced ample evidence showing the correlation between price controls and R&D spending. We know that the more downward pressure on prices, the less R&D done in that country. In Canada, drug prices are set by a  non-elected federal body called the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board

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06 Mar

Continence Training Needs Assessment of Residential Long-Term Care Personal Support Workers

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By Dr. Wayne Taylor

Urinary incontinence (UI) and fecal incontinence (FI) are embarrassing and debilitating conditions that are becoming collectively a major, growing health concern for men and women of all ages worldwide. Recent research showed that professional caregivers in long-term facilities (nursing homes) were not confident in their skills to care for FI residents. This long-term care residential-based

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19 Dec

Big Government vs. Everyone Else: The Truth About the Bizarre World of Drug Benefit Programs in Canada

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By The Cameron Institute

In the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business (ROB) dated November 2016 there appeared an eight-page report entitled, “Big Pharma vs. Everyone”. Below is a counterpoint article to the one found in ROB. It has been written to set the record straight and to inform Canadians accurately about the pharmaceutical system and the difficulty in

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19 Oct

Rethinking the financing of healthcare in Canada

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By Dr. Wayne Taylor

Canadians need to talk about their healthcare, about who pays for what, when. Lack of money is not the issue; how that money is spent is the issue—what public healthcare is covering and not covering. The same dollar amount can be spent quite differently and more effectively. The 1950s first-dollar, single-payor decision shifted the burden

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18 Oct

Four persistent rural healthcare challenges

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By The Cameron Institute

Today, 25% of Canadians live in rural and remote parts of Canada. The evidence is that these Canadians do not enjoy the same health status as citizens living in more urban settings. This article explores four persistent healthcare challenges: population demographics, place, professionals, and public participation. By exploring solutions that some rural communities have used

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28 Sep

Continence training needs assessment of residential long-term care personal support workers

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By The Cameron Institute

Urinary incontinence (UI) and fecal incontinence (FI) are embarrassing and debilitating conditions that are becoming collectively a major, growing health concern for men and women of all ages worldwide. In terms of academic study, interest and understanding, fecal incontinence (FI) is the poor cousin of the incontinence twins. Recent research from the Canadian Continence Foundation

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07 Sep

National Patient Group Survey re Comprehensive Drug Coverage

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By The Cameron Institute

There has been a lot of debate about national pharmacare coverage of catastrophic drug costs in government, the media, and among health policy experts, yet patients— who will be the ones most affected—have rarely had their say. To get a better understanding of what patients value in terms of a national drug coverage program The

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26 Jun

Rule of Law and State Capacity: Keys to Market Access in Developing and Resource-Constrained Markets

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By Dr. Wayne Taylor

Despite the availability of essential medicines in developing countries, one-third of the world’s population does not have access to essential medicines due to barriers including money, power, politics, and ideologies. Market failures and lack of political will to create stable, ethical and law-abiding government administrations that can support infrastructure and resources should carry a significant amount

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20 Jun

5 Principles, 4 Pharmacare Models, 1Panacea?

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By Dr. Wayne Taylor

Pharmaceutical models being touted for Canada do more harm than good for patients in need of innovative but expensive care. The following slides are from The Cameron Institute executive director Wayne Taylor’s presentation to the Best Medicine Coalition’s recent annual conference.