According to a popular saying, insanity can be summed up as the tendency to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results. If this is accurate then we have to conclude that successive Canadian governments which have tried to address the failings of our health-care systems are suffering from psychological distress.
Indeed, the all-encompassing governmental monopoly model, which has tried unsuccessfully to optimize the deployment of our too-meagre healthcare resources, has repeatedly yielded unsatisfactory results.