Health care in Canada is in crisis

None of the issues affecting our health care are new. What's new is its continuing deterioration to the point of crisis and the broadening awareness of Canadians that our vaunted publicly-funded health 'system' is not what it used to be.

Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, centre, at a June 19, 2023, press conference. Nothing much seems to be going on to fix the problems with our quickly eroding public health-care 'system,' write the authors. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID WALKER, DAVID JONES

July 3, 2023

This past May, six family physicians in a Kingston, Ont., practice retired, leaving no successors to refill a prescription, check out a child's persistent cough, the pain in dad's knee, mom's upset stomach, grandpa's aches and pains, granny's forgetfulness—every family's w...

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