The good Fraser Institute, or as you may know them better because this is what the liberal media calls it: The right-wing and admittedly economically conservative so take everything they say with a haYUGE grain of salt Fraser Institute, released another great report today which the liberal media will bash if they cover it at all (it isn’t, after all, by their sacred (and oh-so-totally neutral) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, after all!), called “Misinformation and Wishful Thinking about Medicare’s Sustainability”.
Here’s the executive summary:
In July 2007, the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) published articles by Irfan Dhalla (2007) and François Béland (2007) denying that the growth of government health expenditures observed in Canada is unsustainable. Methodological and conceptual errors in their articles produced invalid analyses and grossly misleading conclusions about the sustainability of government health spending under the Medicare policy model. Yet the errors were elementary mistakes that should have been easily flagged by peer reviewers at the journal before publication. Even worse, the errors were avoidable because peer-reviewed research previously published by The Fraser Institute has already explained why the methods and concepts used by Dhalla and Béland are inappropriate. Appropriate metrics show that government health spending continues to grow faster than the ability to pay for it.
The full report is here in PDF
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