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As a family physician I have to turn away patients. This is part of a national crisis that requires a national response: OPED | Toronto Star | April 22, 2025
Pharmacare's Future: OPED | Canada Healthwatch | April 14, 2025
Health, wealth and no one left behind: OPED | Healthy Debate | April 1, 2025
Ontario election: Don’t be fooled by proponents of for-profit health care. It leads to higher costs and decreased care: OPED | Toronto Star | February 24, 2025
We need virtual care that cares for everyone: OPED | Healthy Debate | 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
Private equity and health care: Should Canadians be concerned? ISSUE BRIEF | Healthy Debate | July 24, 2024
The WHO says corporate greed is causing millions of preventable deaths: OPED | Canada Healthwatch | June 20, 2024
Capital gains tax changes will not destroy health care in Ontario : OPED | Toronto Star | May 8, 2024
Protecting public health care from private investors: OPED | Toronto Star | April 9, 2024
Virtual care has led to a data gold rush for your personal and health information: OPED | Toronto Star | February 14, 2024
The answer is clear: we can’t afford privatized health care OPED | Toronto Star | August 24, 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
A racial justice agenda for medicare: ANALYSIS | Policy Options | April 21, 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
Million dollar research and health care donations often a bitter pill to swallow: OPED | Toronto Star | April 27, 2022
At home and abroad, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is putting Big Pharma first: OPED | Toronto Star | January 27, 2022
The Saturday Debate: Does COVID show Canadian health care should have more private competition? OPED | Toronto Star | November 6, 2021
Budget 2021, Time to Take Action on Pharmacare: OPED | Broadbent Institute | April 13, 2021
Lobbyists guarantee that for-profit cataracts will pay more: OPED | Toronto Star | February 22, 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
Private COVID-19 testing proves we are not all in this together: OPED | Toronto Star | Oct 14, 2020
Medicare 2.0: REPORT | Broadbent Institute | October 8, 2020
Bill 30 gives Albertans health care that's profit-driven instead of patient-driven: OPED | Edmonton Journal | August 6, 2020
Solidarity after the Pandemic, Basic Income or Basic Services?: COMMENTARY | July 23, 2020 | Broadbent Institute
Let’s keep profit out of long-term care: OPED | Toronto Star | May 6, 2020
The mobile health care app touted by the Alberta government has flaws: OPED | Maclean's | April 14, 2020
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
How a B.C. court case over doctors’ rights to privately charge extra fees could endanger Medicare: OPED | Globe & Mail | February 22, 2020
The cautionary tale of Cambie and Australian health care: OPED | Toronto Star | December 3, 2019
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
Comparing Health Systems & Lessons for Ontario: COMMENTARY | drbobbell.com | August 24, 2019
Budget 2019, A small step on the long road to national pharmacare: OPED | CCPA Behind The Numbers | March 21, 2019
Why private, for-profit health care is a terrible idea: OPED | The Conversation | January 20, 2019
Safety of blood supply, not profits, should be Health Canada’s top concern: OPED | Toronto Star | January 1, 2018
When Everyone Has Health Care: COMMENTARY | Democracy Journal | October 17, 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
Better medicare the prescription for Ontario: OPED | Toronto Star | February 23, 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
Pharmacare should be at the top of Trudeau’s agenda: OPED | Toronto Star | November 17, 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