| Abstract: | Hurray for the Canadian Medical Association! They have just released Health: A Need for Redirection, the report of a Task Force on the Allocation of Health Care Resources. The task force, headed by Joan Watson, the former hostess of CBC's "Marketplace," included the Honourable Pauline McGibbon, former lieutenant-governor of Ontario, Roy Romanow, former NDP attorney general of Saskatchewan, and two physicians, John O'Brien-Bell and Leon Richard. The purpose of the task force was to examine the allocation of health care resources in the face of an increasing elderly population and the explosion of new technology. The report could help shape the future of the health care system. The report makes it clear that the health system is in crisis and the reform of the health system needs us all, as both active professionals and critical consumers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
