Everyone who carries an Ontario health card is a member. It is too big and poorly organized for its size. A single structure for managing health services is not a panacea. Montreal has a regional board but insufficient resources to meet the challenge. Quebec now spends less per capita on health services than Newfoundland.
Structures can help direct resources more efficiently, but only if there are resources to direct.
The federal government could contribute by launching a national advertising campaign to support local and provincial efforts. If all health organizations in Canada vaccinated their workers for the flu, a full 750,000 people would be affected. Deal with the housing shortage for the poor. Canada's disgraceful withdrawal from the provision of public housing has made many of Canada's poor into Canada's ill. The emergency room is the wrong place to deal with homelessness and its consequences.