The Wall government's move to make personal health information available for fund-raising purposes has been duly panned as a matter of privacy. But there's an even more worrisome message being sent about the Sask Party's preferred funding model for health care.
After all, there wouldn't seem to be much reason to change provincial regulations to facilitate begging patients for money if that step wasn't combined with an expectation that health foundations will make use of the opening to fund more of the province's health care through that system. And particularly in the wake of the Sask Party's broken promises in funding a children's hospital and other plans to restrict public spending on health care, that has to raise questions about the Wall government's apparent preference for treating health care as a matter of private charity rather than public responsibility.
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