Common Sense and the CMAs Campaign for the Partial Privatization of Health Delivery

Published: August 2, 2007, 6:11 pm

Tags: privatization, cma, public health care

Here's a true story from Canada. It looks like 'market-friendly' forces in the Canadian Medical Association (CMA)are campaigning to allow the part-privatization of health delivery services. To be fair, a lot of health delivery services in Canada are actually private. For instance, much like in the UK, for some bizarre reason dental care isn't part of 'free at the point of delivery' care that public health care systems usually take pride in. Pride one should take in such public systems because they permit equitable access based on health needs as opposed to individuals' capacity to pay. Well, the current CMA leadership aims to permit doctors to take on private patients. The argument is that this could reduce public sector waiting lists. Surely, this is either disingenious or mischievous. Public sector waiting lists in this country are seriously out of sync with delivery needs. This suggests that Canada likely invests insufficient resources into the training of future health care

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