Sen Doug Roche: I’m surprised Dr Relman’s testimony did not find its way into the Senate’s Kirby Committee report. Federal government has capacity to properly finance health care, all it needs is the political will to implement it

As I enter the current healthcare debate in the Senate, I want to state at th e outset that health care is a right, not a commodity. The values of Canadian so ciety that built the medicare system must be protected from, not subsumed into, the new marketplace conditions. As we go forward in meetin...

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