title: Can a learning-disabled nation learn healthcare lessons from abroad?
abstract: Canada's apparent capacity to reform its health system is inversely proportionate to the volume of high-quality reports that document its need to do so. One of the principal causes of this inertia is our unusual preoccupation with the financial sustainability of the public system, despite compelling evidence that this is a fundamental misdiagnosis. The case made here is that we need to declare a moratorium on the sustainability debate, become more adept at learning which features of international systems we can and cannot easily import, and recognize that what ails our system originates in design rather than the laws of nature.
authors.affiliation: President, Access Consulting Ltd., Saskatoon, SK.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lewis