Interesting editorial in the Toronto Sun today (via NealeNews) regarding the private/public mix (or lack thereof) in Canada. Of course if you are a regular in the blogosphere you saw a similar editorial on Daimnation yesterday.
...Unreliable service, long waits for care, too few doctors, financial waste and poor bureaucratic decisions are all legacies of Canada's "publicly funded" health care system, which -- along with Third World dictatorships like Cuba and North Korea -- does not permit people to spend their own money on medically necessary services.
Meanwhile, civilized democratic countries all over the world are getting better health care outcomes than Canada by providing a combination of private and public services, without going to the "survival of the fittest" system practised in the United States.
...AMONG THE predictable reactions to Klein yesterday was that of our own Dalton McGuinty, who insisted Ontario prefers to work within the "letter" and "spirit" of the Canada Health Act. Of course, that didn't prevent him from delisting (i.e., privatizing) optometry, physiotherapy and chiropractic treatments, or imposing health "premiums."
