When we look at health care systems to see which are the most effective in certain fields or specialties, we tend to make interprovincial or international comparisons. We look at the various practices in various places and realize that the various systems or governments tend to follow what others are doing, and then try to make improvements.
As to health transfers, the mentality in Ottawa is that, in exchange for those transfers, conditions will henceforth be imposed on each of the provinces. I wonder if that does not prevent each health care system from innovating so that, at a certain point, we will no longer be able to follow what others are doing to make improvements.
What do you think?