In the Commonwealth Fund’s rankings of health-care systems, Canada scored a dismal ninth out of 11 countries.
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More than 13 per cent of patients said they were adversely affected by waiting for non-emergency surgery.
If provincial finance ministers are convinced they require more funding for health care, they have the ability to raise that revenue themselves.
Aspects of the Canada Health Act discourage provinces from emulating policies found in Australia, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
Province contracted-out select day surgeries to private clinics, expanding total surgical capacity in a short period of time.
Years of adhering to the status-quo and simply pumping money into the system has done little to address the fundamental problems with Canada's health-care system.
Professor Colleen Flood’s recent column in Globe Debate (Canada should look to Europe on health care, not the U.S) got the title right – but just about everything else wrong. Canadians would indeed benefit from a look at Europe for lessons on healthcare reform. What they should not do is fall for Ms. Flood’s erroneous jumbling of statistics that muddle reality and results in false conclusions.