2025-11-27 from here

Yes, the Canadian health care system is a mess. Though we spend more than all but a handful of developed countries on health care, we achieve middling outcomes, leaving Canada near the bottom of the international rankings in terms of value for money.

So yes, it should be possible to discuss bold reforms to Canadian health care, without exciting hysterical claims that the end is nigh, either for medicare or for Canada. And yes, there is nothing particularly new about “two-tier” care: the better off can already avail themselves of faster care by various means.

But no, that does not mean the Alberta United Conservative government’s “dual practice” proposal is a good idea. Radical reforms should not be rejected just because they are radical, but reforms that would do nothing to address the system’s fundamental problems, while adding some of their own, should be.

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