Long waits in waiting room. Worry about health care privacy. Care or medication denied. Each note is published only with the permission of the author. It has brought injustice and inequalities in the access to health care and transformed our physicians into public servants and often simple agents of Government policy.
Freedom of choice is all but nonexistent except for the wealthy and well-connected.
Above all this system is tremendously expensive to run and once implemented difficult to change. We are experiencing cut backs to health care funding in Ontario. I have heard that we may be moving to the type of model that is in place in your state. I work in a large regional hospital and therefore, it would be interesting for me to hear how this process has occurred and what are the outcomes for the patients.