Mark J. Perry: The Essential Hayek
Posted: June 18, 2015 Filed under: Economics, Think Tank | Tags: Alberta, Barbara Mitchell, Canada, Canadian Institute for Health Information, Education, Extracurricular activity, Fraser Institute, Friedrich Hayek, Homeschooling, Quebec, single payer health care, United States Leave a comment
Mark J. Perry writes: Nobel laureate economist Friedrich Hayek (1899 – 1992) is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century and his work still resonates with economists and scholars around the world today. Two decades after Hayek’s death, his ideas are increasingly relevant in an era where governments grow ever larger and more interventionist.
Essential Hayek is a project of the Fraser Institute (Canada’s leading public policy think tank) and includes a new book by George Mason Professor Don Boudreaux (The Essential Hayek, with a forward by Vaclav Klaus, available here), an Essential Hayek website including a great collection of Hayek resources and a series of videos (watch two below and there are more here), that aim to explain Hayek’s ageless economic ideas in common, every-day language. Read the rest of this entry »
Report: Tens of thousands fled socialized Canadian medicine in 2013
Posted: January 18, 2014 Filed under: Health and Social Issues | Tags: Canada, Canadian, Canadian Institute for Health Information, FraserInstitute, Health care in Canada, single payer health care, Twitter 1 Comment
Michael Bastasch writes: Every year thousands of Canadian have no choice but to seek medical care outside of the country’s single-payer health care system, according a report from a Canadian free-market think tank.
In 2013, nearly 42,000 Canucks left their homeland to avoid long wait times and inferior care that plagues their centralized health system.
The report from the free-market Fraser Institute found that 41,838 Canadians became “medical tourists” in 2013 and sought care outside of their hockey-loving country. While there were slightly fewer people fleeing the Canadian health system in 2013 than the previous year, the number leaving still amounts to nearly one percent of medical patients in Canada.
