Health: A Prescription in the Toronto Star

[dewline]

Yeah, so I read this tonight from the professors Armstrong (yes, professors, plural):

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/12/17/here-is-a-health-care-to-do-list-for-the-federal-government.html

The list of advice at the other end of that link makes sense to me. Given the current state of most of our provincial governments, I don't trust the people who run them with a single actual physical penny, no matter that our country no longer mints them as legal tender. Particular emphasis on point 4 as quoted below:

"Understand that health care is not a business like the rest. It is about people who need and people who provide care, doing so on the basis of their acquired skill and experience. Public services should not be organized on the principles of for-profit services but rather should recognize the specificity of care and of our shared responsibility as well as our shared benefits. This means, as a minimum, ensuring that funding does not go to profit, that we build surge capacity into the system and that we attend to the conditions of work which are the conditions of care."

Comments

[bibliofile]

They're not wrong! But I don't know that everyone will be listening who needs to hear this (in any context, not just Canada).

[dewline]

Indeed. We can put the message on "blast mode" everywhere we can think of, and some will still either accidentally or pointedly not "hear" it.

[pilottttt]

This is an eternal problem of all commercial healthcare: it benefits them that people get sick more often, go to doctors more often and buy more medicines.