Just this winter a combination of widespread flu and some reorganization had people being ferried by ambulance from one hospital to another before one could be found to receive an emergency patient. Something has to change. Either we abandon the universal service or we commit to making it as wonderful and efficient and caring in the real world as it is on paper. All the Health Ministers, including the Federal one, met this week, to exchange views on the national health system. Secondly, neither side wants to be seen to wander too far from the official liturgy of a universal scheme.
Some ideas are abroad from more spending to mixing private and public care systems.
We'd like a report from you on what you think of health care where you live - how secure the system is, what can or should be done.