Privatizing Canada's health care is not the answer: Lessons from the United States

Prominent US physician discusses her perspective in CMAJ

OTTAWA, OCTOBER 6, 2008 – Investing in Canada's public health system is the best way to improve it, rather than privatization, writes Dr. Marcia Angell, a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. The article was published online today in CMAJ http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/rapidpdf/cmaj.081177.