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. This program about the foundations of love and lust is a dialogue between historian Jay Cassel and sociologist Mariana Valverde. All societies have to contend with questions of procreation, shame, modesty, desire, inhibition, death and illusions of eternal youth. Anthropologist Bernard Arcand contends that pornography is modern society's uncertain response to these timeless questions. In medieval Spain, Jews, Christians and Moors lived in harmony for centuries.