Canada’s Socialized Innovation
Canada’s single-payer system began in 1957, with several revisions years later. Man, 50 years under a socialized medicine, government-run scheme. Canadians with their single-payer system clearly have no motivation to innovate–because where’ the profit? Funny, then, that Canada’s had plenty of medical innovations:
- 1958 World first surgical treatment on cerebral aneurysms. (Lawson Health Research Institute — London, Ontario)
- 1960 First implanted mammary artery into the heart wall in order to restore functionality of the heart. (McGill University Health Centre Research Institute — Montreal, Quebec)
- 1965 First artificial knee joint in the world created. (McGill University Health Centre Research Institute — Montreal, Quebec)
- 1969 Discovery of a carcino-embryonic antigen, a tumour marker for cancer. (McGill University Health Centre Research Institute — Montreal, Quebec)
- 1987 World’s first pacemaker cardioverter defibrillator is implanted. (Lawson Health Research Institute — London, Ontario)
- 1989 Discovery of the gene which, when defective, causes cystic fibrosis, the most fatal genetic disease of Canadian children today. (The Hospital for Sick Children — Toronto, Ontario)
And on and on and on…
Indeed, money doesn’t drive everything, or even many things, for many of us…The desire to to offer change and help to our cultures – to the world in whatever positive way is for many of us something mutually exclusive to the drive for the almighty dollar or the almighty ego.
Creativity comes in many forms. The desire to offer forms of betterment and progress to our fellow humans comes in many forms.
Go Graham!
it’s remarkable an intelligent fellow such as yourself can just keep ignoring the gun that was used to extort the necessary funds from fellow citizens…remarkable…