pHow Successive Governments Have Weakened the Foundation of All Canadian's Social and Economic SecurityemppbrppAt some point, you will find yourself lying in a hospital bed. There is a good chance that your bed will be a firm, rubber pad held secure between two rails and parked along a corridor in a busy emergency department. Moans of Nurse! will echo from the beds ahead of you in line. Those pleas will fall largely on deaf ears. Your hospital is underfunded and understaffed. Welcome to the current reality of Medicare in the 21st century.ppbrppUsing searing analogies and first-hand accounts, Dr. Whatley makes the argument that the current Medicare system is unsustainable and unless critical choices and changes are made soon, the publicly funded, single-payer system in Canada will implode.ppbrppSuccessive governments, regardless of political stripe, know all too well that Canada's system of health care is one of the defining characteristics of being a Canadian, and any changes deemed ha