Cardy: Healthcare needs ideas, not intransigence | National Newswatch
Canada’s health ministers ended their meeting in British Columbia on Tuesday with the usual demands for money and better data-sharing. Missing from the conversation are ideas that can fix a broken system, one that lacked for innovation and political courage for decades before the pandemic drove the proverbial stake through its heart.
But most Canadian doctors run private businesses. They are not civil servants. They perform a service and bill the government, the same way a construction company bills the government for building a road or school. The only difference between a doctor’s office and other businesses is that doctors canbill the government. In exchange for providing health services – and being well paid to do so – doctors get a deal no one else could dream of: they get to decide how many doctors there will be.
Recent legislation introduced by the New Brunswick government starts down this road, expanding opportunities for private providers to offer joint replacements and other procedures stymied by long wait lists. A good start, but there’s no reason to restrict the reform: let internal markets decide whether a city needs one, seven, or zero private clinics.
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