To achieve better outcomes, governments need to reform their health\u002Dcare systems. Read on.
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.As for the mystery man, it was Dennis King, premier of Prince Edward Island, a province you don’t hear from much. For patients’ sake, however, Premier King should have been given more time at the microphone.
He’s 100 per cent right. To achieve better outcomes, governments need to reform their health-care systems.Article content Over a decade ago, Saskatchewan began aggressively tackling its waiting lists by commissioning private clinics to perform surgeries for patients. It worked. Not only did wait times fall, so did costs — anywhere fromIn January, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced thatof elective surgeries would be done in private clinics in future.
Speaking of Ontario, patients in Canada’s most populous province can pay for their injured pet to receive an MRI tomorrow, but its government won’t allow them to spend those same dollars on an MRI for themselves. Other provinces have similar barriers between patients and the private surgical services many of them need. And Ottawa frowns on private care, too: in the past it has reduced funding to provincial governments for allowing private options.
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