At the dawn of Medicare, the proposed new model resulted in a strike by Saskatchewan doctors worried about “socialized medicine.”
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Faced with the prospect of losing access to their doctors, almost 15,000 families formed 34 community clinic associations, raising over $325,000 over less than a year for health-care clinics that patients would own and govern based on democratic co-operative principles. Many clinics folded shortly after Medicare was introduced; today, only four remain, with large clinics in Saskatoon, Regina and Prince Albert, and one smaller rural clinic operating in Wynyard. Even the 2002 Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, led by former NDP premier of Saskatchewan Roy Romanow, ignored the sector’s efforts to put its model on the agenda.
Elsewhere, there are indications that citizens may be tired of waiting for policymakers to act. As the Globe and Mail recently reported, residents of the Saanich Peninsula, on the southeast coast of Vancouver Island, raised money to open two medical clinics and recruit doctors who could take over from physicians at, or near, retirement.
and credit union sector. The research into the co-operative clinics is funded, in part, by the Saskatoon Community Clinic, one of the clinics being investigated in this research.Article content
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