Operating in the Dark within Medicare and the Health Care System: John Crosbie, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of AIMS, devoted his recent column in Atlantic Business magazine to the topic of health care. In Vol. 11, no. 1, 2000, he draws inspiration from 'Operating in the Dark' , AIMS' 1999 paper on the future of the health care system in Canada, and warns of the dangers of failing to come to grips with the system's many failings
Selon une nouvelle étude de AIMS, ce n’est qu’en apportant des changements importants au système de soins de santé qu’on pourra en protéger les éléments auxquels tiennent les Canadiens.
The provincial finance ministers have struck a joint agreement aimed at pressing Paul Martin to direct the looming federal surplus towards tax cuts and greater transfers to provincial budgets. But just whose surplus is it, anyway?
The Introduction to Operating in the Dark paints a picture of a Canadian public health care system on an unsustainable course, a course that will plunge medicare in ever-deepening crises over the next 10 to 20 years.
AIMS president Don Cayo writes in 1999, "the Prairie Provinces don’t know much about the state of their health care systems and the efficacy of the policies their governments have recently adopted. But we really don’t know anything about ours."
In 1999, AIMS President Don Cayo writes, "I want tax cuts. I want important services maintained at - or brought back up to – a decent level. I want mountainous debts reduced so many more tax dollars can start funding services and stop paying interest. And I want it all now! I admit I’m dreaming – at least the part about wanting it all now."
Don Cayo writes about Camille theriault's "health care guarentee" legislation