Canada Needs To Wake Up And Smell The Caribou

From the Vancouver Sun, more from Dr. Day.

"..British Columbia has a health scheme overseen by a bureaucracy that consumes health funds that should instead be directed into patient care. Our country has one health bureaucrat for every 1,400 citizens, while Germany (which spends less than Canada and has a hybrid public-private system without waiting lists) has one for every 15,000..."*

This is outrageous and cuts right to the heart of how inefficient we've become. It's not normal that here in Montreal, if you have the displeasure of being moved from one hospital to the next the results of one can't be sent in a timely manner to the other. There isn't a computerized system in place to share files.

But talk hybrid here and everyone goes goo-goo, gaa-gaa.

"...Many European social democracies offer universal care and rapid access without waiting lists. It is time to embrace their principles of choice and competition.

Health care already benefits greatly from private-sector philanthropists who fund buildings, research centres and equipment. Private capital is also provided through funds raised from telethons, lotteries, bingo halls and casinos. It’s time that individuals were granted the freedom to spend their own after-tax dollars on the health care of themselves and their loved ones — a freedom enjoyed by citizens in every one of the 196 countries on Earth."
*I read somewhere a few years back where Quebec with a population of 7.5 million has more civil servants on a per capita basis han the state of California which has 37 million and not exactly in sound financial health.