Private, market based health services are integrated to one degree or another in every universal health care system in Europe.
There are plenty of hybrid models to look at before assuming that the only available alternative to the Canada Health Act is a purely private American style health system.
To restore the standard of care demanded by Canadians to the letter of the current law would require a hefty increase in taxes — the largest cohort in our population is heading into senescence when medical costs are highest.
Medicare is funded from current government accounts; there is no fund of accumulated revenues to draw from. I'm all for it because I'm sixty-eight years old and the benefit to me is immediate, .../
/...but younger citizens are taxed disproportionately for medical services they don't demand, and I think they would be resistant to tax hikes. I don't think that what remains of any ethic for caring for the elderly in our society will overcome that. #skpoli
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