Governments warn of cost explosions. And lately, propaganda from the United States has captured our attention and fueled fears that we are threatened by second class service. You have to look behind the headlines to uncover the real pressures on Canada's health care system. They system was set up like an insurance company, with governments more or less relegated to writing cheques. There is no ceiling on growth and very little built-in accountability.
Major change is now on the agenda.
Toronto writer Ann Silversides examines the real need for better health care in Canada, and the obstacles to it. One of Canada's most prolific writers, George Woodcock died earlier this year. He was born in Winnipeg in 1912, the son of English parents. The family returned to England the next year, and Woodcock grew up in the country of Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley. George Woodcock considered himself both an outsider and an observer of the English cultural scene.