re: #106 ckb

That is exactly what will happen. In the Canadian system, chronic underfunding has lead to scarce resources: too few doctors, too few hospital beds and limited number of services. The result is rationed care. Hospitals are allotted a given number of procedures per year. They are compelled to decide who gets the treatment & who does not. That why we have 1 million people on waiting lists for surgery. And the waiting list continue to grow, not shrink.

The hospital panels make life & death decisions, whether you want to call them “death panels” or not.