Health System Reform
Health, wealth and no one left behind: OPED | Healthy Debate | April 1, 2025
We need virtual care that cares for everyone: OPED | Healthy Debate | January 21, 2025
Dr. Danyaal Raza on non-physician professionals billing the public system: INTERVIEW | Redeye | January 21, 2025
Don’t have private insurance? You’re still paying for others who do — you deserve better care: OPED | Toronto Star | November 22, 2024
Capital gains tax changes will not destroy health care in Ontario : OPED | Toronto Star | May 8, 2024
Canadians will soon have a national pharmacare plan: INTERVIEW | Here and Now Toronto with Gill Deacon, CBC Radio | February 26, 2024
Canadians were promised universal pharmacare, What happened?: INTERVIEW | The Big Story | March 28, 2023
Navigating Access to Prescription Medications: INTERVIEW | Clerk Commute | March 14, 2023
Canada is failing to meet the moment on the cost of medication: OPED | Globe & Mail | March 8, 2023
Community health hubs could provide sorely missing primary care: ANALYSIS | Policy Options | December 13, 2022
Healthcare in Canada: INTERVIEW | Globe & Mail Events | May 11, 2022
A racial justice agenda for medicare: ANALYSIS | Policy Options | April 21, 2022
Federal Budget 2022: INTERVIEW (26:10) | Canada Tonight, CBC News Network | April 6, 2022
How to vaccinate the world and end the pandemic: OPED | Healthy Debate | February 3, 2022
Canada has a health-care investment problem: ANALYSIS | Policy Options | October 21, 2021
Reigning in Drug Prices, Before Pharmacare Slips Away: OPED | National Newswatch | September 2, 2021
Today is International Workers Day. As doctors, we can’t help but see how Ontario has failed its essential workers. Here’s what needs to be done: OPED | Toronto Star | May 1, 2021
Budget 2021, Time to Take Action on Pharmacare: OPED | Broadbent Institute | April 13, 2021
Covid-19 vaccine rollout must guarantee equal access for all residents: INTERVIEW | Redeye, Vancouver Cooperative Radio | March 6, 2021
Vaccines, prices and a pandemic: OPED | Healthy Debate | February 2, 2021
Let’s turn wealth into health with a 1% tax on the rich: OPED | Healthy Debate | December 16, 2020
Medicare 2.0: REPORT | Broadbent Institute | October 8, 2020
Is pharmacare worthy of the throne?: INTERVIEW | The House, CBC Radio | September 19, 2020
Solidarity after the Pandemic, Basic Income or Basic Services?: COMMENTARY | July 23, 2020 | Broadbent Institute
A rescue package includes expanding medicare: OPED | Toronto Star | March 25, 2020
How labour policy in both Canada and the U.S. affects the spread of coronavirus: OPED | Maclean's | March 13, 2020
Physicians are coming together on universal pharmacare: OPED | Medical Post [gated] | December 2, 2019
National pharmacare—the time is now: OPED | Maclean's | November 27, 2019
The Unfinished Business of Medicare: DEAN'S LECTURE | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, The University of Western University | October 19, 2019
Healthcare issues missing from political platforms & debates: INTERVIEW | Metro Morning, CBC Radio | October 9, 2019
Can any of the federal parties pull off a national pharmacare program? INTERVIEW | Your Morning, CTV | October 8, 2019
Pharmacare Q&A, Election 2019: INTERVIEW | Carole MacNeil, CBC News Network | September 23, 2019
Comparing Health Systems & Lessons for Ontario: COMMENTARY | drbobbell.com | August 24, 2019
Pharmacare advisory council to release final report: INTERVIEW | Power & Politics, CBC | June 11, 2019
NDP releases plan for universal pharmacare: INTERVIEW | The Morning Show, AM640 | April 2, 2019
Budget 2019, A small step on the long road to national pharmacare: OPED | CCPA Behind The Numbers | March 21, 2019
Pharmacare: INTERVIEW | Ottawa Morning, CBC Radio | April 19, 2018
Medicare for All: TOWN HALL | Senator Bernie Sanders | January 23, 2018
The rising costs of prescription drugs: INTERVIEW | CBC Morning Live | November 7, 2017
When Everyone Has Health Care: COMMENTARY | Democracy Journal | October 17, 2017
Curing Inefficiencies in Health Care: PANEL | The Agenda, TVO | October 10, 2017
Canada must expand public health care or fall further behind: OPED | Healthy Debate | August 16, 2017
Putting patients first can save our health system: OPED | Toronto Star | August 7, 2017
Free drugs for anyone under 24: INTERVIEW | Ontario Today, CBC Radio | April 28, 2017
Better medicare the prescription for Ontario: OPED | Toronto Star | February 23, 2017
Is Canada Ready for National Pharmacare? INTERVIEW | The Rounds Table | February 10, 2017
Doctors tackle relationship between climate change and health: OPED | Vancouver Sun | August 23, 2016
How climate change is bad for Torontonians’ health: OPED | Toronto Star | August 19, 2016
Proper housing is a crucial health issue: OPED | Toronto Star | May 8, 2016
Heading Upstream from the Front Lines: TALK | Upstream | April 3, 2016
Pharmacare should be at the top of Trudeau’s agenda: OPED | Toronto Star | November 17, 2015
Poverty’s Impact on Health: INTERVIEW | Information Morning Fredericton, CBC Radio | June 1, 2015
Canada Needs To Adopt a ‘Health In All Policies’ Approach': OPED | Huffington Post | October 20, 2014
What the city can do to improve our health: OPED | Toronto Star | July 19, 2014
Right to Work and Health: OPED | Harvard Kennedy School Review | July 1, 2014
Office Interventions for Poverty: CLINICAL CARE | Ontario Medical Review | October 2013
The gap between rich and poor is bad for our health: OPED | Healthy Debate | April 13, 2013
Why Canada’s cuts to refugee health must be reversed: COMMENTARY | Canadian Family Physician | July 2012