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Shawn Whatley: Is Canadians’ Pride in Universal Health Care Misplaced?

Shawn Whatley: Is Canadians’ Pride in Universal Health Care Misplaced?
The Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville, N.S., on April 30, 2019. Doctors at the facility have started a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to pay for more hospital beds. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan
Shawn Whatley, MD
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Universal health care made the top of a list of things identified as a very important source of personal or collective Canadian pride in a new survey.

Commissioned by the Association for Canadian Studies, the online survey shows that 73 percent of Canadians found personal or collective pride in universal health care, 70 percent in the Canadian passport, 67 percent in the Canadian flag, and 65 percent found pride in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Shawn Whatley, MD
Shawn Whatley, MD
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Shawn Whatley is a practicing physician, author of “When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing,” and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He is also a past president of the Ontario Medical Association.
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