Conrad Black: Canada’s Health-Care System Is in Desperate Need of Reform

Commentary It is a notorious fact that the Canadian health-care system is a shambles, and yet, until recent promising developments in Ontario, and apart from some toleration of private medicine in Quebec, our governments, from sea to sea, are doing practically nothing to alleviate a terrible problem. Most readers will easily remember when Canadians were so proud of their health-care system it was frequently cited as one of the reasons why it was better to be a Canadian than an American. For decades, it was a key component of the unique Canadian preoccupation of explaining why we should persevere as an independent nationality rather than fold our sovereign hand into that of our prodigious neighbour....