Does ‘pay more, get less’ make sense to you?

Canada’s health-care system stood 10th of 11 countries studied by the Commonwealth Fund in 2014.

Canadians are spending more money than people do in other developed countries, the United States excepted, for health-care services that are nowhere near the best, write Duncan Sinclair and David Walker.The Hill Times photograph by Kristen Shane

Opinion

BY DAVID WALKER, DUNCAN SINCLAIR

March 6, 2017

Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, the myth endures that Canada has a system of health-care services that is among the best in the world. Unlike Santa and the Easter Bunny, however, both as benevolent as it gets, the widespread belief that health care in Canada is top-drawer is both wrong and an...

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