About the author

Cynthia Ramsay joined The Fraser Institute in 1993 and is now the Senior Health Economist. In this capacity, she directs the Institute's research in health care. She is co-author of the Institute's annual survey of hospital waiting lists, Waiting Your Turn, and co-author and co-editor of Healthy Incentives, a book on health care in Canada (Vancouver, BC: The Fraser Institute, 1996). She has written on a wide range of issues in health economics from hospital funding to alternative medicine to children's health. She is a regular contributor to Fraser Forum, the Institute's monthly publication, and her articles have appeared in newspapers such as The Medical Post, The Globe and Mail, and Family Practice. Ms Ramsay has appeared before the Canadian Parliament and spoken to groups across Canada and the United States on the necessity of market-oriented health care reform. She has been a guest on various open-line radio talk-shows and on local and national television and is now a host of a radio talk-show on CKST AM1040 in British Columbia. Prior to joining the Institute, Ms. Ramsay worked at Statistics Canada as an economic analyst. She received an M.A. in Economics from Simon Fraser University, and a B.A. Honours in Economics from Carleton University.

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