Some common sense on health care.

In B.C.'s throne speech on Tuesday in Victoria, Gordon Campbell's government indicated that they were going to start experimenting with privately delivered health care. Quebec already allows it and Alberta is on it's way to doing the same. Only Ontario is left of the largest four provinces not to commit to private care. Private delivery should be a no brainer and B.C. will be taking the correct approach and studying the positive and negative effects of private care in other countries that have adopted the mix such as Sweden and France. This approach will allow for our provincial governments, whose jurisdiction health care falls under remember, to deliver a far more efficient system. As long as wait times are reduced and services continue to be paid by the public, what difference does it make who is delivering the services? Thankfully Campbell will not (at least should not) face resistance from newly appointed federal health minister Tony Clement who is in support of increased innovation. With the aging population, and health care needs of that population, we can no longer let a dogmatic ideological belief get in the way of caring for Canadian citizens. The days of the public health care monopoly in this country are over and it's time everyone accepted that fact and worked together towards an improved system.