Governments avoid health reform
Published June 7, 2010 in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/search/article/1083481

No quick fixes for health care in N.B. should not be a surprise to
anyone. Successive governments have left health-care reform for the
next governing party because the system is complex and reforming it is
difficult.

We are hearing more about "patient centered care" and accessing
health care in one's community, all ideas that should have been
implemented by now and likely would have been if reform were easy. We
are all guilty of being complacent and believing that we have "free"
health care because we don't see the bill for services rendered. Health
care is not cheap, but when people in New Brunswick see that millions
of dollars have been wasted trying to convince us that selling NB Power
is a great idea, it's hard for us to understand why there is an issue
with paying for health care.

Governments always seem to find the dollars for what they perceive
as a priority, it just may not be what's important to the people.

LINDA WILHELM

Midland