Fixing medicare: What if the doctor was always in?
Canadians of a certain age can recall a time when, if you didn’t get your shopping or banking done during what were then very limited business hours, you were out of luck. Baby Boomers and Gen Xers remember it well.
Twenty-four hour supermarkets? Pharmacies open at midnight? Banks operating nights and weekends? Online banking and shopping, any time? Unheard of. Unimaginable. Why is this? Because medicare is still operating on blueprints from the 1960s. And we’re still stuffing health care spending into silos from that decade, which instead of communicating with each other operate more like hermetically sealed worlds.
In the coming months and years, as Canadians debate how to improve medicare, a lot of heated arguments are going to be about whether to privatize parts of the system. It’s an important question – but maybe not the most important.
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