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When politics comes before patients : why and how Canadian Medicare is failing / Shawn Whatley.

by Whatley, Shawn.

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Optimum Publishing International, c2020.

362.10971 W555w

Medical care -- Canada.

Health care reform -- Canada.

National health insurance -- Canada.

9780888903112 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Why and how Canadian Medicare is failing

342 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-[337]) and index.

"Canadians cling to the notion that our publicly-funded health care system is the envy of the world. But medicare has forgotten about the patient. Other universal access systems perform far beter than Canada's and treat patients with dignity before all else. Authors, academics, and politicians of all stripes have called for reform for decades. Governments have allowed ideology to dictate direction, while patient care continues to decline and costs continue to rise. Canadian medicare responded to COVID by denying care to non-COVID patients. The most vulnerable patients fared worst. Canadians now face a stark choice: shovel funds into a failing system or open our minds to ideas and options offered by most other countries in the world." --Back cover.

"Dr. Shawn Whatley, a Family Physician and former President of the Ontario Medical Association, brings clarity and hope to all Canadians who at one time or another are patients. Often frank, his facts and arguments on why Medicare has failed Canadians is a book for our times. According to Whately, we need to take what we have learned and re-forge a new -- some say 'naive' -- focus on the Patient." --Back cover.

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