Globe poll on healthcare

[Jay]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/06/09/newscoc-health050609.html


It's already begun.

As a result of delays in receiving tests and surgeries, patients have suffered and even died in some cases, justices Beverley McLachlin, Jack Major, Michel Bastarache and Marie Deschamps found for the majority.

Lawyers for the federal government argued the court should not interfere with the health-care system, considered "one of Canada's finest achievements and a powerful symbol of the national identity."

In a health delivery system somehow suffering and dying in some cases is a fine achievement and a powerful symbol of national identity .