Interestingly enough, I think it's ignorance on the part of the public. In deference to the politicians, health care reform is often seen as kryptonite, as death to a politician. It's not because the politicians wouldn't do the right thing if they thought it was the right thing, but Canadians, and Jeffrey Simpson's book is really good on this, have a wrong idea of what the health care system is, how it performs, how good it is, how bad it is, what it covers, and so on. They have a very strange view of it. They have to change their view so that politicians can say, “Right. Now that the public is informed, I can now do something that makes sense”, rather than....
On February 7th, 2013. See this statement in context.