{"id":857653,"date":"2025-06-23T22:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/lewis-a-team-canada-approach-to-health-care-could-eliminate-woes\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T22:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T03:13:10","slug":"lewis-a-team-canada-approach-to-health-care-could-eliminate-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/lewis-a-team-canada-approach-to-health-care-could-eliminate-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis: A Team Canada approach to health care could eliminate woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<article aria-labelledby=\"articleTitle\" data-wcm-id=\"586fe467-5579-4515-8d3f-6109c31a2e0c\">\n<header aria-label=\"Beginning of Article\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>It would be a big win were Team Canada to set its sights on decluttering health-care federalism \u2014 call it the chaos dividend.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Published Apr 22, 2025<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <span>Last updated Apr 22, 2025<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <span>3 minute read<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure data-aqa=\"featured-image\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 1200px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0221-gd-health-image.tg_292820620.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=564&#038;h=423&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=BqK-LGG0r4-OmXE-5aBAeQ, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0221-gd-health-image.tg_292820620.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1128&#038;h=846&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=rQWrPnaoIZRm99vHQ8zt9w 2x\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1200px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0221-gd-health-image.tg_292820620.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=564&#038;h=423&#038;type=jpg&#038;sig=q6b2SVVnM8pLKg09VJ8kMw, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0221-gd-health-image.tg_292820620.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1128&#038;h=846&#038;type=jpg&#038;sig=NFDuAfZvyZ0XNnE0vE352Q 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0221-gd-health-image.tg_292820620.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=472&#038;h=354&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=GAeP9xYi-ZT6GJ-GWpYBiQ, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0221-gd-health-image.tg_292820620.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=944&#038;h=708&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=5hT5zeB9QiK2k7dcKy6CQg 2x\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0221-gd-health-image.tg_292820620.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=472&#038;h=354&#038;type=jpg&#038;sig=kq6S5chF-nOeLdcMKFFzYA, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0221-gd-health-image.tg_292820620.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=944&#038;h=708&#038;type=jpg&#038;sig=4b9OwHNPMeW_ccQNfdfjjA 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0221-gd-health-image.tg_292820620.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=288&#038;h=216&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=3f9WCKJWSCMJ7tGFCZCPsQ, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0221-gd-health-image.tg_292820620.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=576&#038;h=432&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=Sgzcj5lUo66ROavcsq83IQ 2x\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Health care\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0221-gd-health-image.tg_292820620.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=288&#038;h=216&#038;sig=Qr5MzlKUGnDy71J6DXdBcw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0221-gd-health-image.tg_292820620.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=288&#038;h=216&#038;sig=Qr5MzlKUGnDy71J6DXdBcw,\n                    https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0221-gd-health-image.tg_292820620.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=576&#038;h=432&#038;sig=U4SMeneuxS-Zu6CbHwqFiw 2x\" height=\"750\" width=\"1000\"><\/picture><figcaption><span>Steven Lewis writes that this nation would benefit from a Team Canada approach to health care.<\/span> <span>Photo by Jocelyne Lloyd<\/span> \/<span>Contributed<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<p>If you want to explain what oxymoron means, start with the phrase \u201cco-operative federalism.\u201d Fed-bashing has long been the go-to move for premiers in search of an enemy to blame for whatever ails their fiefdoms.<\/p>\n<p data-async>Ottawa certainly did its part, afflicted by a seemingly irresistible urge to express its pi\u00f1ata gene (see: the Atlantic Canada heating oil carbon tax exemption). <a data-evt-val=\"{\"control_fields\": {\"mparticle\": {\"keys\": {\"click_source_type\": \"click_source_type\", \"anchor_text\": \"anchor_text\", \"target_url\": \"target_url\", \"layout_section\": \"layout_section\"}, \"mp_event_type\": \"Navigation\", \"extra_keys\": [\"click_vertical_position_percentage\", \"click_vertical_position_pixels\"]}}, \"click_source_type\": \"in-page link\", \"anchor_text\": \"Short months ago\", \"target_url\": 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your favourite authors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div data-auth-component id=\"auth-screen-form\" aria-live=\"assertive\">\n<h2>Sign In or Create an Account<\/h2>\n<p><span><\/span><span>or<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p data-async>And then along came the new world order that changed the game overnight. Patriotism surged. We have seen the enemy, and it isn\u2019t us. We were suddenly embarrassed by interprovincial trade barriers and resolved to get out of our own way. Now <a data-evt-val=\"{\"control_fields\": {\"mparticle\": {\"keys\": {\"click_source_type\": \"click_source_type\", \"anchor_text\": \"anchor_text\", \"target_url\": \"target_url\", \"layout_section\": \"layout_section\"}, \"mp_event_type\": \"Navigation\", \"extra_keys\": [\"click_vertical_position_percentage\", \"click_vertical_position_pixels\"]}}, \"click_source_type\": \"in-page link\", \"anchor_text\": \"itu2019s Team Canada\", \"target_url\": \"https:\/\/leaderpost.com\/opinion\/columnists\/mandryk-patriotism-turning-into-gamesmanship-in-saskatchewan-and-canadian-politics\", \"layout_section\": \"in-page-link\"}\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\" href=\"https:\/\/leaderpost.com\/opinion\/columnists\/mandryk-patriotism-turning-into-gamesmanship-in-saskatchewan-and-canadian-politics\">it\u2019s Team Canada<\/a>, the muted rah rahs from the <a data-evt-val=\"{\"control_fields\": {\"mparticle\": {\"keys\": {\"click_source_type\": \"click_source_type\", \"anchor_text\": \"anchor_text\", \"target_url\": \"target_url\", \"layout_section\": \"layout_section\"}, \"mp_event_type\": \"Navigation\", \"extra_keys\": [\"click_vertical_position_percentage\", \"click_vertical_position_pixels\"]}}, \"click_source_type\": \"in-page link\", \"anchor_text\": \"Smith-Moe alliance\", \"target_url\": \"https:\/\/thestarphoenix.com\/opinion\/columnists\/tank-moe-smith-prove-valuable-assets-for-carney-and-liberals\", \"layout_section\": \"in-page-link\"}\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\" href=\"https:\/\/thestarphoenix.com\/opinion\/columnists\/tank-moe-smith-prove-valuable-assets-for-carney-and-liberals\">Smith-Moe alliance<\/a> notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<p>The team hastily assembled to play in the international trade war tournament, but external threats alone won\u2019t end our familial squabbles. Team Canada\u2019s long-term future lies in tackling our domestic dysfunctions.<\/p>\n<p>Canada is not broken, but health care lurches from crisis to crisis, unable to right itself. It would be a big win were Team Canada to set its sights on decluttering health-care federalism \u2014 call it the chaos dividend. These three investments could generate huge returns.<\/p>\n<p>One is licensure and regulatory reform. There is a staggering amount of bureaucratic bloat, redundancy and uneven capacity across the country. The duplication creates maddening barriers to mobility.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Small professions struggle to do even the basics, and the regulatory toolkit for assessing fitness to practise consists mainly of blunt instruments.<\/p>\n<p>The calls for national licensure have gone unheeded; it\u2019s time to get on with it. Then begins the harder work of reforming regulation to keep up with rapidly changing science, artificial intelligence and interprofessional practice.<\/p>\n<p>Regulation was designed for a slower-moving world. Today it is reactive and fragmented, and a brake on innovation; reformed, it can be its ally.<\/p>\n<p data-async>A second key area is <a data-evt-val=\"{\"control_fields\": {\"mparticle\": {\"keys\": {\"click_source_type\": \"click_source_type\", \"anchor_text\": \"anchor_text\", \"target_url\": \"target_url\", \"layout_section\": \"layout_section\"}, \"mp_event_type\": \"Navigation\", \"extra_keys\": [\"click_vertical_position_percentage\", \"click_vertical_position_pixels\"]}}, \"click_source_type\": \"in-page link\", \"anchor_text\": \"health information\", \"target_url\": \"https:\/\/thestarphoenix.com\/opinion\/columnists\/lewis-canadas-health-care-data-desert-hinders-any-real-progress\", \"layout_section\": \"in-page-link\"}\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\" href=\"https:\/\/thestarphoenix.com\/opinion\/columnists\/lewis-canadas-health-care-data-desert-hinders-any-real-progress\">health information<\/a>. Canada is plagued with electronic health records that don\u2019t talk to each other and are incapable of producing real-time performance reports to improve practice.<\/p>\n<p>There is no strategy to deal with the coming avalanche of data generated by home-based diagnostic and monitoring technologies. Residents of England have online access to 10 times as much information on how their system performs than Canadians have on theirs.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Too much of our data is a stranded asset that compromises practice, planning, research and accountability. The information train runs on tracks where the gauge changes every two kilometres, and you need an entry visa to get to the dining car. Only a well-funded pan-Canadian effort can fix it.<\/p>\n<p data-async>A third vital innovation is <a data-evt-val=\"{\"control_fields\": {\"mparticle\": {\"keys\": {\"click_source_type\": \"click_source_type\", \"anchor_text\": \"anchor_text\", \"target_url\": \"target_url\", \"layout_section\": \"layout_section\"}, \"mp_event_type\": \"Navigation\", \"extra_keys\": [\"click_vertical_position_percentage\", \"click_vertical_position_pixels\"]}}, \"click_source_type\": \"in-page link\", \"anchor_text\": \"health workforce education\", \"target_url\": \"https:\/\/thestarphoenix.com\/opinion\/columnists\/lewis-heres-why-health-care-workforce-plans-in-canada-always-fail\", \"layout_section\": \"in-page-link\"}\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\" href=\"https:\/\/thestarphoenix.com\/opinion\/columnists\/lewis-heres-why-health-care-workforce-plans-in-canada-always-fail\">health workforce education<\/a>. Health science and technology are advancing at dizzying speeds. AI is already better at diagnosing dozens of conditions than highly specialized clinicians.<\/p>\n<p>Machines can monitor critically ill patients with tireless precision and detect warning signs invisible to the most observant nurse. An incredible amount of clinical evidence and advice is available on a smartphone to practitioners and the public.<\/p>\n<p>These developments rival the printing press and telephone and shake the foundations of health workforce education to their core. Do graduates need to memorize information they can find in 15 seconds?<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>There is consensus that primary care should be team-based, yet team-based training is difficult where programs are individually designed and accredited, and occupations emphasize their uniqueness. These are wicked issues to address, and no jurisdiction has a hope of solving them alone.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of today\u2019s trade wars lies a deep suspicion of co-operation, collaboration and interdependence. (There is also very bad arithmetic.) Health-care systems are constitutionally provincial, and all health-care delivery is local.<\/p>\n<p>But health care is intensely knowledge based, and it improves only when best practices spread and become standardized, and the barriers to innovation and talent come down.<\/p>\n<p>Both neglecting and duplicating vital infrastructure compromise health system performance. The neglect stems from short-sightedness, the duplication from parochialism.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Team Canada has assembled to fight a tariff war. It should stay together to exchange the dubious satisfactions of autonomy for the liberating potential of collaboration. That\u2019s real patriotism.<\/p>\n<p><em>Steven Lewis spent 45 years as a health policy analyst and health researcher in Saskatchewan. He can be reached at <span \n                data-original-string='C7VqZ4PDXk5iItD2s0Wz9Q==7f4hcR\/dcFc5TQKm+2FTrrQCVcyt5cVm2i2D3tMmEMD8nM='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>sl<span class=\"apbct-blur\">*********<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">***<\/span>il.com<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n<section aria-labelledby=\"moreTopicLabel587420460983014685559073426898944\" data-aqa=\"embed-more-topic\" data-carousel-component data-carousel-icon-button data-carousel-type=\"list\">\n<p>Read More<\/p>\n<ol data-carousel-slide-list tabindex=\"0\">\n<li data-evt-val=\"{\"control_fields\": {\"mparticle\": {\"keys\": {\"click_source_type\": \"click_source_type\", \"data_source\": \"data_source\", \"anchor_text\": \"anchor_text\", \"widget_title\": \"widget_title\", \"target_url\": \"target_url\", \"target_article_title\": \"target_article_title\", \"target_article_id\": \"target_article_id\", \"target_article_position\": \"target_article_position\", \"layout_section\": \"layout_section\"}, \"mp_event_type\": \"Navigation\", \"extra_keys\": [\"click_vertical_position_percentage\", 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src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1139846274_78430276.jpg?h=96&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=80&#038;sig=7KojDtJS8riVvfWnQBCUIQ\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1139846274_78430276.jpg?h=96&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=80&#038;sig=7KojDtJS8riVvfWnQBCUIQ, https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1139846274_78430276.jpg?h=192&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=80&#038;sig=pztzqNcgCPYgqWRqZqE9nA 2x,\n                                             https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/thestarphoenix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1139846274_78430276.jpg?h=288&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=80&#038;sig=nRhjCBuGa4F0fbr5UXAuow 3x\" height=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\"><\/picture>\n<p><span>Lewis: Surgical wait times chaos threatens medicare in Saskatchewan<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/a><\/li>\n<li 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Published Apr 22, 2025 \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Last updated Apr 22, 2025 \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 3 minute read Steven Lewis writes that this nation would benefit from a Team Canada approach to health care. 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