Whose gonna care for health care?

I've been doing research into the cost of health care in the US and Canada and the hundreds of billions of dollars spent in Canada and trillions of dollars spent in the US on health care is staggering.

The figures reminded me of a report I remember hearing ten years ago, that indicated the health care system in Canada is going to be bankrupt in ten years. Well, that was over ten years ago and we seem to be doing fine.

Although, the reason the health care system in Canada is not broke may be because of all the cuts to health care that the federal government and in turn the provincial government made to health care over the last ten years or more, and the rise of private clinics and/or private medical services being offered to varying degrees across Canada seems to have filled a void in the wake of said cuts.

I think we need to realize that funding health care when health care costs are apparently rising faster then inflation from a purely publicly funded purse is not realistic.

A mixed system of public and private funding should be feasible in Canada as many European countries such as Sweden have a mixed system which is predominately public, but has private elements to it.

I know we cherish our social institutions in Canada, but there is a saying in law that goes 'the law must be stable, but not stand still,' and that certainly applies to the tyranny of tired two dimensional status quo thinking that dominates mainstream politics, economics, and how health care is funded.

Health care reform is inevitable, and we should be thinking beyond the terms of our elected officials when it comes to how we can keep health care accessible to everyone.