Here’s how health care should look in the 21st century

We need a system that's universal, portable, accessible, and comprehensive, providing everybody the care they need, independent of their ability to pay. Canada's public health-care system does not meet those principles now.

Gov. Gen. David Johnston with members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) on the sidelines of a panel discussion on mental health for Bell Let’s Talk Day in January. Duncan Sinclair writes that mental health should be among the insured health services guaranteed to all Canadians.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY DUNCAN SINCLAIR

March 6, 2017

Canada needs both “top-down” and “bottom-up” leadership to create a genuine system to meet our 21st century needs for health and health-care services at a cost each province, territory, and the country can afford. Governments need to step up to governing, of re-vamping the "deliv...

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