Could Canada’s health-care system be healthier?

The federal government should take leadership in developing, funding, and ensuring implementation of standardized integrated and integrative health-care systems across Canada, thereby ensuring delivery of health-care services to the populations for which it has jurisdiction, but also including patients currently underserved by the existing provincial systems. Such community clinics would need to be both integrated and integrative.

Canada's federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas-Taylor, pictured. As the holder of the purse strings, the federal government could develop such a population-based, integrated and integrative model of health care. Not a bad national health-care strategy as we head into the next election, writes ISG Senator Josée Forest-Niesing. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ISG SENATOR JOSéE FOREST-NIESING

February 4, 2019

Medicine is not my area of expertise, but I have often joked that I almost feel ready to take some of the med-school exams. Why? I have taken ownership of and responsibility for my health and in the process, I have learned so much. Having struggled with serious health problems since a rather ominou...

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