Dave Dutchak is the head of the province's largest ambulance service(1) and he has recently expressed the lightning vision that the future of health care lies in a partnership between business and government. The business partnership with SAIC and SAP have not been enough to drain our health resources in the past(2), and Dave Dutchak is looking into additional future partnerships between business and government so that we can bring a new vision to health care. Dave Dutchak says that this new vision for health care should parallel the lightning vision the synchrotron(3) will bring to Saskatoon when thousands of researchers from all over the world will come to Saskatoon and be blinded by the synchrotron's beams of light that are billion times more powerful than x-rays(4). Never mind if our health care is deteriorating and that our aboriginal young people are dying(5); our health is in our future and well protected by the vested interests of ever bigger businesses, ever inept and corrupted governments, and ever biased reductionist evidence based researchers.

New visions and fundamental changes start with the way we think, with the way we are able to transform ourselves and learn; therefore, Dave Dutchak's new vision for health care is as good as the 'New Vision for Health' expressed by former minister of health Louise Simard in 1992, and as good as the 'Caring For Medicare' researched by the one-man Saskatchewan Commission on Medicare(6), Ken Fyke.

Stephen Covey, a management scientist, explains how fundamental changes are created: Change - real change - comes from the inside out. It doesn't come from hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior with quick fix personality ethic techniques. It comes from striking at the root - the fabric of our thought, the fundamental, essential paradigm, which give definition to our character and create the lens through which we see the world. (Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People(7))

References/endnotes

Relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

1. M.D. Ambulance, http://www.mdambulance.com/index.html

2. Premier Romanow: Militarizing Health Care and Killing Rural Saskatchewan, by Mario deSantis, Mar 19, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000/desantis142/rural.html

3. Premier Romanow's Shining Light to the World: The Canadian Light Source Synchrotron, by Mario deSantis, April 2, 1999 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantis43/SynchroApr5.htm

4. Health conference explores new vision for health care, CBC Saskatchewan, Nov 26 2000 http://sask.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/11/26/rw001126

5. Innu promised detoxification centreCBC, November 26, 2000 http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/11/26/innu_children001126

6. The Commission on Medicare, Ken Fyke http://www.medicare-commission.com/

7. 7 Habits 11 years later, USA WEEKEND, July 9, 2000 http://www.usaweekend.com/00_issues/000709/000709covey.html