Prepare your favourite candidate
for the election
CMAJ 1997;156:1371
With the future of health care promising to be a central issue in the upcoming federal election campaign, it will be important for every candidate to sound like an expert on health care management.
One way political candidates can do this is to learn about medicare and funding issues from the people who know. The CMA's MDMP Contact Program (800-682-MDMP) provides physicians with critical information and advice that they can use to teach politicians about the reality of the problems facing the health care system.
Alternatively, if the learning curve is too steep or time is a concern, candidates can use buzzwords that will give a ring of decisive, knowledgeable authority. A helpful member of the CMA Publications Committee suggests that political candidates who are too busy on the hustings to learn about health care issues should simply pick any word from each of columns 1, 2 and 3 to create a convincing phrase. These buzzwords will make them sound like they know what they're talking about. Even if no one knows what is being said, who would admit it?
Column I |
Column II |
Column III |
integrated |
consultative |
methodologies |
universal |
evidence-based |
decision aids |
portable |
accessible |
algorithms |
blended |
nontraditional |
paradigms |
equitable |
single-payer |
delivery systems |
vertically |
responsive |
technologies |
comprehensive |
population-based |
analyses |
complementary |
transitional |
contingencies |
alternative |
incremental |
options |
publicly |
multidisciplinary |
innovations |
administered |
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