A Healthy Society Quotes

“This threat of unsustainability is the constant, and most compelling, cry of those who would establish a private health care system in parallel to Medicare. Driven by the belief that health care is a commodity that can be best delivered through profit, they argue that the current system would be helped and not threatened by this change. The evidence is clear: this is rubbish. Wherever it has been tried (in other countries and in limited ways here in Canada), a parallel system has increased waiting lists and practitioner shortages in the public system. It also erodes commitment to funding the public system by those who can afford to sidestep the queues, ultimately leading to two systems that are very different in quality and cost.”
― Ryan Meili, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy

“One of the best ways for governments to perpetuate the ability to make bad decisions for the majority, with the support of the majority, is to diminish the quality of education.”
― Ryan Meili, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy