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Article: Castonguay liberates health care
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- February 24, 2008
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Rebecca Walberg
A generation ago, universal single-payer health care was on the cutting edge of policy. Today, it has become clear that this way lies disaster, and significant changes are needed if Canada's health system is to keep functioning. It's fitting, then, that Claude Castonguay, a former Quebec health minister known as a "father of medicare," is leading the charge toward health policy reform today.
The Castonguay report, released last week, does a remarkably good job of identifying the best practices of foreign health care systems that might be brought to Quebec, and by extension to the rest of the provincial medicare systems.
He recommends a hike in sales tax to fund health care, ...