Ottawa fumbling attempts to pull Canada’s healthcare system out of the last century
2026-06-11 from winnipegfreepress.com/
Just about everyone — from political leaders to clinicians and certainly patients — agrees that health care in Canada is in desperate need of reform and modernization. How is it then that we struggle so badly to accomplish what all of us know needs to be done?
Two recent examples provide an excellent study on how this country has adopted a one step forward, two steps back approach to health-care reform.
First, federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel announced Wednesday she was creating the National Advisory Panel on Preventative Health Services, a group of health-care experts who will make recommendations on how to “strengthen disease prevention and help ensure timely, effective and responsive care for all Canadians.”
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