The latest articles and commentary on Canadian health care from Bob.
- The Current with Matt Galloway: Fixing long-term care after the devastation of the pandemic
- Coming of Age: Meeting the needs of our ageing population
- ‘Vaccination passports’ offer fourth wave security net for non-essential businesses
- Privately owned long-term care is not associated with increased mortality
- Lobbyists guarantee that for-profit cataracts will pay more
- Privatizing eye surgery deeply short sighted move that will harm care in Ontario
- Clearing the COVID-19 backlog isn’t enough – we need to build a better health care system
- Ending private long-term care would be an expensive mistake
- Questions over spending at long-term care homes that have received government pandemic assistance
- Joel Dryden: Provinces should adopt surveillance testing to battle COVID-19, long-term care home review say
- Pandemic report identifies failures across Canada in long-term care homes
- Interview on Rosemary Barton Live: Long-term care operators dealing with another COVID-19 outbreak
- Understanding Ontario’s long-term care tragedy
- A COVID-19 vaccine would only be the beginning of the end of the pandemic
- How to improve Ontario’s COVID-19 testing and screening policies
- Ontario Loud podcast: Capacity in Ontario’s Health System during COVID-19 and beyond
- Preparing for the post-pandemic Ontario
- During this crisis, cancer patients and cancer researchers must not be forgotten
- Cancer care in the time of COVID-19
- Why is Ontario behind on COVID-19 testing?
- Adopting a U.S. plan for easing hallway medicine
- Intended Consequences: Episode 4 – Dr. Bob Bell, Former Ontario Deputy Minister of Health
- The big endorsement, Part 4: Steven Del Duca
- The cautionary tale of Cambie and Australian health care
- Publishing physician billings can help sustain OHIP
- The elimination of regional leadership in Ontario’s health system
- Increased oversight of OHIP is overdue
- Ontario Health Team application reveals complexities in running new system
- We aren’t properly preparing for long-term care demand
- A contingency plan for preventing certain January emergency room gridlock
- Back to the future for home care in Ontario
- Is home care at risk with the creation of Ontario Health Teams?
- Alberta copying health system Ontario is discarding
- Are Ontario Health Teams designed for failure?
- Cutting low value health care is high value to Ontario
- The simple math of hallway medicine
- Ontario health quality will suffer under the Peoples Health Act
- A threat to the quality of cancer care in Ontario
- Corner store booze is bad for our health and our budget
- Is Ontario open for health care business?
- ‘Open for Business’ without strong public health is risky business
- OHIP billings need to be transparent
- Future of Ontario medicare depends on scrutiny of medical testing
- Competition between public and private care will not cure hallway medicine
- Ontario health reform strategy ‘vindictive’ and a failure at effective change management
- Debating Ontario’s Health-Care Overhaul
- Will the future of Ontario surgery be private or public?
- A cautionary tale for new Ontario Health board
- Ontario health teams are useful incremental change
- Re-centralizing? Re-disorganizing? What exactly is Ontario doing to its health-care system?
- CBC Listen: Ontario Morning – Wednesday February 27, 2019 – Part 2
- Is it too late to reconsider Ontario’s new health care super agency?
- What does and doesn’t make sense about Ontario’s big changes to healthcare: expert
- Ontario Loud, Bonus Episode: Approaches to healthcare that wouldn’t suck
- Are private home-care companies about to become more profitable?
- Ontario Loud, Episode 15: What a healthcare super agency means for you!
- Health care ‘super agency’ wrong solution for Ontario’s four big problems
- Newly-obtained cabinet orders show health overhaul well underway
- Former deputy health minister Bob Bell on potential changes to health care
- If Ontario scraps its LHINs, what’s next for health care?
- In defense of the LHIN
- A Doctor who knows how government works talks health care policy
- Ontario should not negotiate separately with medical specialists
- Don’t harm Cancer Care Ontario while restructuring health agencies
- Busting the myth of bloated health care bureaucracy
- Former deputy health minister retires
- Ten Torontonians who got things done in 2014
- Faces of Health Care
- How a football injury led (eventually) to health care’s top job
