Danny Williams medicare debate Part II

John Gedded has an excellent piece in Macleans on the Danny Williams health care controversy. He concludes:

"Canada should be looking for ways to adapt, not revolutionize, health care. If the path from primary physician to specialist is shorter in the U.S., learn from that. If, as I’ve been told recently by Canadian doctors, Britain has done better at cutting wait times within a public system, learn from that. If Europe is broadly better at computerized records, there’s our classroom.

"None of these potential lessons, I’m afraid, has zing to match of the saga of a millionaire politician jetting south for surgery. Personal stories are fun to tell. Policy requires charts and graphs."

His observations bolster the case for the universal healthcare insurance that we have in Canada.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/24/the-health-debate-beyond-the-danny-williams-story/?om_rid=Ay6UJ1&utm_source=_BLiAUdB77aB2nj&utm_content=ml19&utm_medium=email

Commonwealth Fund, Danny Williams, health care, wait times