Canadians back ‘public solutions' to improve care, poll finds
André Picard Public Health Reporter
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 03:11AM EDT
An overwhelming 86 per cent of Canadians favour “public solutions” for bolstering medicare, according to a new poll.
The survey, commissioned by the Canadian Health Coalition, is being released Wednesday as a pre-emptive strike.
That is because the Canadian Medical Association, at its coming general council meeting, plans to stage a high-profile discussion about transforming medicare, and it will release its own poll on support for privately delivered care.
Michael McBane, national co-ordinator of the Canadian Health Coalition, said he has no doubt that poll will show strong support for “privatization schemes” but the “language used in the CMA survey was so vague and misleading that its results cannot possible be interpreted as support for more for-profit medicine.”
(More here.)
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 03:11AM EDT
An overwhelming 86 per cent of Canadians favour “public solutions” for bolstering medicare, according to a new poll.
The survey, commissioned by the Canadian Health Coalition, is being released Wednesday as a pre-emptive strike.
That is because the Canadian Medical Association, at its coming general council meeting, plans to stage a high-profile discussion about transforming medicare, and it will release its own poll on support for privately delivered care.
Michael McBane, national co-ordinator of the Canadian Health Coalition, said he has no doubt that poll will show strong support for “privatization schemes” but the “language used in the CMA survey was so vague and misleading that its results cannot possible be interpreted as support for more for-profit medicine.”
(More here.)
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