Medicare is a Canadian national communal health care system for all its citizens. It is not perfect. At times emergency facilities at hospitals are greatly overloaded. Medical personnel is often taxed beyond reason. Waiting time for elective surgery creates frustration.
Administrative conflicts result in bad decisions.
Government spokespeople tend to tell us that everything possible is being done. The Opposition tends to tell us that the system is in shambles. During the past three years the MCCM Peace and Social Concerns Committee has been collecting information in an effort to understand better what is happening in health care reform. We can only share a few bits here. Distinguishing between propaganda and information ot all Government statements are reliable.