Government & Policy

I am sure that many of you have been following the debacle of the Obamacare website. Officially known as the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare is one of the greatest advances in healthcare financing in the United States since the introduction of Medicare. Many Presidents and Congressmen have tried and failed to do something like it. To realize its importance, one must recognize that health care in the U.S. is extremely expensive – though not proportionally effective – and that over 40 million Americans lack any form of health insurance. Read More

Tank commanders have a knack for seeing opportunities for engagement and the obstacles that lie in their way more sharply than others. That’s just how Glenn Lanteigne saw things when first graduating from the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario as an Armoured Corps officer. But after a budget planning stint at Canadian Forces Headquarters in Ottawa, he rolled into the private sector, healthcare first, with what was GE Medical Systems, becoming a Six Sigma Black Belt. Read More

By Richard Irving, PhD I am currently writing this column from Hydrabad, India, where I am teaching in the Schulich MBA program for eight weeks. During my visit, I was invited to a conference at the Indian School of Business and attended a session on healthcare. The general discussion would be familiar to most of you, though the problems faced in healthcare in India are orders of magnitude more difficult that we face in Ontario. Read More