All the available evidence suggests that buying those services from the private sector will end up costing us more, and give a lot less in return. The more private insurance companies are involved in paying for medical services, the more duplication and red tape there is. In the US, about 42 million citizens are unable to afford health insurance. 3 a private system removes money from the system. In the private sector, some money is always used to pay back investors.
Private firms have a stake in costs going up, because higher costs mean higher profits.
There are no internal checks and balances within the private sector to control costs. And the pace is quickening, thanks to recent massive federal and provincial health care budget cuts. Most politicans, it seems, are either actively helping the process, or passively allowing it to happen. As voters, we have a right to ask why. It looks like the only people who can save Canada's health care system are Canadians themselves.