Health care has grown into a colossal tapeworm in the bowels of the Ontario government, devouring cash as quickly as it gets shoveled down the taxman’s maw.
They have thrown significant cash at health care’s many woes. However, the need is for the creation of an integrated health care system where electronic records safeguard against prescription errors, where patients are proactively tested for disease and where doctors and nurses counsel patients throughout their life to guide them to better health. We are nowhere near that and progress to restructure health care to prepare for imminent need has focused on political priorities and acute care needs. One day, and soon, we’ll all pay a price for that. James Wallace is the Queen’s Park bureau chief for Osprey News Network.
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