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Drummond tips hat on health care – calls for more private delivery of public health care

While we are still waiting for the Drummond Commission report on the Reform of Public Services in Ontario, Don Drummond himself is giving broad hints at what may be ahead for health care.

The latest is a November 17 paper published by the C.D. Howe Institute: Therapy or Surgery? A Prescription for Canada’s Health System.

In it Drummond continues to scaremonger with his ‘sky is falling’ predictions even while health care costs are dropping as a percentage of the size of the overall economy and as a percentage of provincial program spending.

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