HHS official calls Canada’s assisted suicide-fueled organ donation ‘strange new horror’

HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill called out Canada for how its permissive physician-assisted suicide program fuels organ donation rates.
PBS

Some health care workers in Canada grappling with patients requesting euthanasia

TORONTO (AP) — A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, an injured worker given meager government assistance, and grieving new widows. All of them requested to be killed ...
PBS

How Canada got universal health care and what the U.S. could learn

Naresh Tinani loves his job as a perfusionist at a hospital in Saskatchewan’s capital. To him, monitoring patient blood levels, heart beat and body temperature during cardiac surgeries and intensive ...
The Conversation

Why increasing Canada’s health budget for preventive and social care makes sense fiscally and medically

Rylan Egan receives funding from the Henderson Foundation via Compassionate Communities Kingston Canada. In the past, he has received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), ...
The New York Times

Canadian Doctors Warn Against Private Medicine as a Cure for the System’s Ills

The Canadian Medical Association has called for a ban on payments for procedures long covered by public systems and is warning about contracting services out. By Ian Austen With perhaps 6.5 million ...
The New York Times

The Growing Private-Sector Involvement in Canadian Public Health Care Systems

Ontario announced plans this week to further expand services offered through privately owned clinics under its health plan. By Ian Austen This week, the provincial government in Ontario announced that ...