Medicare is now more than 50 years old and still operates, in the main,along the same worn-down, outdated lines as ever.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the federal government is nearing an agreement with the provinces to provide additional funding for health care. The prime minister says he expects a deal to be reached this month.
Unfortunately, and we might say almost predictably, the deal came up short because the provinces failed to deliver. In 2019, 15 years after the agreement was signed, and later refreshed, only 75 per cent of hip replacements and 70 per cent of knee replacements were conducted within the agreed-on wait times.We say “almost predictably” because there were no penalties in the agreement for failure to deliver. The provinces got the money whether they met their targets or not.
We’ve focused primarily on just one aspect of a new health-care funding deal — the need for defined outcome targets and penalties for non-compliance. Certainly other matters are also on the table. Organized foot-dragging within the health-care system, frequently by professions anxious to retain their autonomy, has stymied repeated attempts at reform. That’s one reason it took B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix five years to grant pharmacies the right to renew routine prescriptions, the simplest of expedients.
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