U of S panel discusses future of Canada's health system

Sixteen years after the federal government established the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care, a panel of experts at the University of Saskatchewan talked about the future of Canada’s health care system.
Chancellor Roy Romanow, who headed the 2001 royal commission and led the panel on Monday, said health care remains an important test for the nation.
“Public medicare is one of the defining features of this country. History teaches us that it was not achieved very easily,&r