The medical officers had referred to almost 40 studies linking poverty, unemployment and unequal distribution of society's wealth to poor health. It's very encouraging to have the medical people speak out in support of what the World Health Organization, the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation etc. have been saying for some time now. Less encouraging is another article on the same page of the same issue as Mitchell's article. In it Alexandra Paul describes the tension between the Filmon government and the Manitoba doctors over fee negotiations. They're drowning in money so how can they argue they have a finite amount of money.
Doctors are consistently at the top or near the top in average income.