Commentary
It was the best of takes on Canadian socialized medicine, it was the worst of takes. From Matt Gurney at The Line, “none of us is morally obligated to let our families suffer in pain to satisfy the ghost of Tommy Douglas.” And from CTV, “More private health care linked to higher mortality, Quebec study warns.” As so often in Canada, we are told intellectual paralysis is patriotism. Let us instead summon the ghost of common sense.
When “Experts are concerned” you just know it will be the usual suspects, like some progressive think tank, and not labelled at all, let alone “left-leaning,” “left-wing,” or, heaven forfend, “far left.” Whereas The Line piece, after acknowledging the dedicated excellence of much Canadian urgent care, tells a tale of two patients their editors knew with simultaneous medical emergencies: one getting statist treatment here and one receiving private care in a “developing country.”…