How much closer does the health-care crisis have to hit?

A recent hospital experience was a good reminder that health-care reform isn’t some esoteric political battle. When are we going to own up to the hard truths and do something about it?

For Tim Powers and his family, who you know mattered in terms of access to care, and it shouldn’t. That is not legitimate universal health care for others, he writes. Unsplash photograph by Olga Kononenko

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

August 31, 2022

ST. JOHN’S, N.L.—The challenged and fractured state of the Canadian health-care system was brought home to our family last week. Fortunately, the outcome was not dire, but eye opening. While sitting at home in Ottawa on Aug. 22, I received a call from a family friend that my mother was being ta...

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