Source Analysis Healthcare

…any system, including a healthcare system, must be governed by certain principles that allow for open competition and individual initiative. When you have competitive forces at play you will always see improvement and innovation. A system stifled by government bureaucracy kills individual incentive that leads to innovation. Government controlled healthcare systems lead to mediocrity and stagnation. If you remove the shackles of government regulation and control you will immediately see improvement to the problems that plague our socialized healthcare system.

In their discussions with me, Canadians have been clear that they still strongly support the core values on which our health care system is premised – equity, fairness and solidarity. These values are tied to their understanding of citizenship. Canadians consider equal and timely access to medically necessary health care services on the basis of need as a right of citizenship, not a privilege of status or wealth. Building from these values, Canadians have come to view their health care system as a national program, delivered locally but structured on intergovernmental collaboration and a mutual understanding of values. They want and expect their governments to work together to ensure that the policies and programs that define Medicare remain true to these values.