Canada Health Consumer Index 2011
– December 20, 2011
The Canada Health Consumer Index compares the performance of Canada’s ten provincial healthcare systems from the perspective of the consumer.
Canada Health Consumer Index 2010
– December 14, 2010
The annual Canada Health Consumer Index evaluates healthcare-system performance in the ten provinces from the perspective of the consumer. For the third straight year, Ontario and British Columbia finish with the top scores in the CHCI’s overall rankings.
Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index 2010
– May 10, 2010
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy releases the 3rd annual Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index. Canada lags behind in 25th place and far behind consumer and competition friendly Holland.
Canada Health Consumer Index 2009
– December 15, 2009
How good is your provincial health care? Frontier’s annual Canada Health Consumer Index evaluates healthcare-system performance in the ten provinces from the perspective of the consumer. For the second straight year, Ontario and British Columbia finish with the top scores in the CHCI’s overall rankings.
Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index 2009
– May 25, 2009
The Frontier Centre and European Consumer Powerhouse released their annual comparison of health care among Europe and Canada. The Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index 2009 showed Canada compares reasonably well with the best performing healthcare systems on outcomes, is average on the generosity scale, and at the absolute bottom when it comes to patient’s rights, waiting times and availability of pharmaceuticals. Canada is also dead last in the "Bang-for-the-Buck" index.
Canada Health Consumer Index 2008
– September 16, 2008
The Frontier Centre and its Brussels-based partners at the Health Consumer Powerhouse release the 2008 Canada Healthcare Consumer Index, the first-ever national consumer-focused bench-marking of Canada's provinces.
Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index 2008
– January 21, 2008
European and Canadian Think Tanks release the 2008 Euro-Canada Consumer Healthcare Index, the first-ever international consumer-focused bench-marking of Canada vs. 29 European countries.
Universal Medical Savings Accounts
– June 15, 2000
A new Medicare model has the potential to retain universality, restore service levels, control costs and introduce transparency and accountability to the system. That model, Universal Medical Savings Accounts (UMSAs), allocates existing public funding directly to individual citizen-consumers of health-care services. |
