I’m pleased that Dr. Brian Day, a pre-eminent consultant orthopaedic surgeon and leader in spearheading private health clinics in Canada, has joined us today as a Guest Columnist in our Columnist section, with a great editorial about one of his favorite topics, fixing Canada’s health care system.
Here’s a tidbit of his editorial:
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Despite more and more money being poured into the black hole of medicare, to the point that it consumes almost 45 per cent of the total budget in all provinces, there are still two million Canadians waiting for medically necessary care.
Statistics confirm that money alone has failed to improve service and the increased spending has occurred at the expense of other important societal needs such as education, social services, law enforcement and the environment.
[…] Few deny that our health system needs restructuring. We are ranked 30th in the world by the World Health organization, but are one of the three or four most expensive. We must learn from experiences in other countries and use that knowledge to implement change. It is unlikely to be a coincidence that all 29 countries that outperform us have public health care supplemented by a complementary private system. […]
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