Bob Bell Opinion

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Recent work

• The simple math of hallway medicineOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 17, 2019
• Ontario health quality will suffer under the Peoples Health ActOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 1, 2019
• A threat to the quality of cancer care in OntarioOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 24, 2019
• Should Canada adopt Eric Hoskins’ pharmacare plan?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jun 18, 2019
• Corner store booze is bad for our health and our budgetOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 6, 2019
• Is Ontario open for health care business?Opinion · Toronto Star · May 28, 2019
• ‘Open for Business’ without strong public health is risky businessOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 25, 2019
• OHIP billings need to be transparentOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 11, 2019
• Future of Ontario medicare depends on scrutiny of medical testingOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 7, 2019
• Competition between public and private care will not cure hallway medicineOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 1, 2019
• Ontario health reform strategy ‘vindictive’ and a failure at effective change managementOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 25, 2019
• Will the future of Ontario surgery be private or public?Opinion · Toronto Star · Mar 20, 2019
• A cautionary tale for new Ontario Health boardOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 13, 2019
• Ontario health teams are useful incremental changeOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 6, 2019
• Is it too late to reconsider Ontario’s new health care super agency?Opinion · Toronto Star · Feb 27, 2019
• Private health care advocates are ramping up the rhetoricOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 19, 2019
• Are private home-care companies about to become more profitable?Opinion · Toronto Star · Feb 13, 2019
• Health care ‘super agency’ wrong solution for Ontario’s four big problemsOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 6, 2019
• Conservatives’ health care review process is backwardsOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 31, 2019
• Arbitration can heal rift between Ontario’s doctors and governmentOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 25, 2019
• Ontario should not negotiate separately with medical specialistsOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 17, 2019
• Don’t harm Cancer Care Ontario while restructuring health agenciesOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 17, 2019
• Busting the myth of bloated health care bureaucracyOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 14, 2018