The headline-grabber was the proposed amalgamation of 20 existing health agencies, including the province’s 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs), into a single, monolithic super-agency, to be known as Ontario Health. But what if there’s more to Ontario Health than that? Some decisions on health care need to be made centrally, but most do not. Much of the accompanying rhetoric, indeed, gives the impression that what the government thinks Ontario’s health care system needs is more and better central planning — when in fact central planning is the problem. Enter the new Ontario Health Teams.

Source: National Post March 12, 2019 00:45 UTC