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Nadeem Esmail
Publishing · On our record since 2009
Where this writer stands
Health7 pieces
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“To help better manage excess demand and avoid waste, the provinces should follow the lead of universal health-care countries worldwide and implement some form of cost-sharing for health-care services.” Read the piece
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Recent work
- OPINION: Carney budget should target Canada’s waning living standardsOpinion · Toronto Sun · Nov 4, 2026
- OPINION: Private hospitals can help produce better universal health careOpinion · Toronto Sun · Oct 13, 2026
- OPINION: Health-care costs rising for Canadian familiesOpinion · Toronto Sun · Aug 4, 2026
- OPINION: Patient ‘cost-sharing’ reduces unnecessary visits and frees resourcesOpinion · Toronto Sun · May 26, 2026
- Opinion: Don’t blame immigration for Alberta’s health-care woesOpinion · Edmonton Journal · Mar 10, 2026
- OPINION: Ontario’s health-care wait times are ‘remarkably’ longOpinion · Toronto Sun · Jan 21, 2026
- OPINION: Canadian patients travel and pay to escape Canadian health-care systemOpinion · Toronto Sun · Jan 15, 2026
- OPINION: Other countries doing universal health care better than CanadaOpinion · Toronto Sun · Oct 31, 2025
- Opinion: Private-pay option will improve access to MRIs and CT scansOpinion · Edmonton Journal · Oct 31, 2025
- ESMAIL: Amending Health Act will spur meaningful health-care reformOpinion · Toronto Sun · Jul 9, 2024
- Opinion: Policymakers in Ottawa and Edmonton maintain broken health-care systemOpinion · Calgary Herald · May 8, 2024
- ESMAIL: Canadians paying more for health care and receiving lessOpinion · Toronto Sun · Feb 14, 2024
- Calgary HeraldOpinion · Calgary Herald · Feb 20, 2013
- The cost of medicare-- how much you payOpinion · Calgary Herald · Aug 31, 2009
- The Vancouver SunOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Aug 15, 2009