The Fitht Estate From the beginning of our lives to the end, Canadians place great trust in our hospitals – and a great deal of money. Canada’s hospital budget is a staggering $56 billion a year, most of it spent on acute care hospitals. But what do we really know about the quality of care…
Jeffrey Simpson Penguin (BAnQ) Critique de Quil & Quire Simpson’s thoroughly researched book employs a mixture of first-hand reporting (including dispatches from a hospital emergency room), the findings of a variety of international health-care studies, and the author’s decades of experience covering Canadian politics. He persuasively argues that our vaunted health-care system is not only less…