Canadian Health Care in Crisis

RALEIGH — Brian Lee Crowley is the founding president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Atlantic Canada’s public policy think tank. He has written extensively on the centrally planned, government monopoly model of health care in Canada. Carolina Journal interviewed Crowley during his recent visit to Raleigh. He said because of rapid medical inflation in the country, roughly half of the budgets of Canadian provinces are now spent on the country’s single-payer health care system, and that poorer Canadians are actually more likely that wealthier ones to see the current system as broken and a market-based option as attractive.