The health-care system is in crisis, and we could have avoided it

The whole country is about to experience what Inuit and First Nations endure most days on-reserve: a lack of healthcare providers, no access to local emergency wards, life-threatening wait times, a fear that if we need care we won’t be able to get it.
Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos. Canada’s health care costs more than it should because of a lack of national co-ordination, writes Rose LeMay.
OTTAWA—We are burning out the health-care workforce, and that’s on us. It’s our fault. In 2019, Canada spent about 10 per cent of its budget on healthcare, reflecting our national value of public health, and similar to most other G20 countries. The outlier is, of course, the U.S. With its mes...

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