2025 Canada's Health Care Crisis and What Matters to You

01/31/25 • 68 min

In this episode, we tackle Canada’s health care crisis, exploring the systemic challenges that leave millions of Canadians without primary care access, put immense strain on hospitals, and disrupt medical supply chains. Our guest, Rosalie Wyonch, Associate Director of Research at the C.D. Howe Institute, shares expert insights on why the current system is failing and what solutions could actually make a difference.

What does the government’s role in health care reform look like? How do policies around drug pricing, labor shortages, and funding battles between federal and provincial governments impact the care you receive? We unpack these critical issues, helping you understand the roadblocks to change and what needs to happen to build a stronger, more accessible system.

If you care about holding policymakers accountable and being part of the conversation on Canada’s health care crisis, this is the episode for you. Tune in and stay informed, because understanding policy is the first step toward real solutions.

Rosalie Wyonch is the Associate Director of Research at the C.D. Howe Institute, where she leads both the Health Policy Research Initiative and the Small- and Medium-Sized Business Growth Working Group. Her research spans healthcare, innovation, tax policy, education, and labour markets, with a particular focus on systemic change and innovation in healthcare delivery and business development in Canada. Before joining the Institute in 2016, Ms. Wyonch served as a Research Analyst at the Ontario Ministry of Finance's Office of Economic Policy. She holds a Master of Arts in Economics and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Mathematical Economics from the University of Waterloo. Her expertise is recognized through her appointments to the Canadian Institute for Health Information's National Health Expenditure Advisory Group and the Healthcare Excellence Canada Policy Circle. A sought-after policy expert, Ms. Wyonch regularly shares her insights with corporate, government, and academic audiences, and has conducted hundreds of interviews with national and international media outlets.

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