Poor performance is feature, not bug, of Canadian healthcare

In my fortnightly column for the Globe’s Economy Lab (in the ROB) I take aim at those apostles of the status quo who claim there is nothing wrong with Canadian health care more money and “federal leadership” won’t fix. In fact more money only serves to mask the deep systemic dysfunction of medicare, caused principally by its addiction to a central planning mentality which ought to have died with the fall of the Berlin Wall.