Competition surest route to top quality health care; AIMS in the London Free Press
London Free Press columnist Rory Leishman turns to AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley and AIMS Fellow on Health Care Policy, Dr. David Zitner, to explain the absence of publicly available information on the effectiveness of the Canadian health care system and individual providers within that system. The problem, Zitner and Crowley explain, is that in Canada, "health care is an unregulated monopoly, devoid of any performance requirements." The bureaucrats who run the system have a vested interest in keeping the rest of us in the dark about how well or poorly they are doing. After considering this fact, Leishman concludes that there can be no hope for any significant improvement in medicare until Canada, like every other democracy, opens up its public-sector medicare system to vigorous and across-the-board competition from service providers in the private sector.