Health Queue Jumping

Well, I have waited a bit on this because I wanted to see the Canadian Medical Association’s reaction to deliberate, overt queue jumping by a person in a position of power and authority. Specifically, Brian Day, CMA President and his queue jumping for himself and his family. And the reaction is nothing at all.

Federally, the CMA should be disbanded. Queue jumping is akin to the police being above the law, or politicians not requiring to be elected. If the CMA has no desire to set a good, moral example then it has out-lived its mandate.

I think a new, national health organization should be established only this time it should represent the consumers of health care. Perhaps it could be called the Canadian Health Association. The role of this association would be to divert virtually all federal and provincial funding of health to individuals, potential consumers of health care, and away from the providers of health care. Health care providers have proven themselves to be morally bankrupt and can no longer be trusted with funds to properly provide health care services. Make the providers compete for the public dollars now held by the consumers of health care.

The logic is simple. Health dollar expenditure will be prioritized by vote of the consumer dollar, as it should be; rather than by dubiously motivated suppliers of health care.

Medical ethics, paah!