The COVID-19 pandemic has once again revealed that Canadians pay among the highest costs in the developed world for health care, in return for mediocre results judged by international standards.
Clearly, we need meaningful and sensible reforms, not more political nostrums that Canadian health care is “free” and “the best in the world”.
It isn’t free, and it hasn’t been the best in the world — if it ever was — for a long time.
