CEOs and other business leaders in this National Post/COMPAS study of business executives are largely agreed that the healthcare system is in longterm decline, that it should get no more money, that patients should be allowed to purchase outside the system, and that the status quo is untenable. However, there is no majority support for any other policy, for example, no majority for Medical Savings Accounts, age-tiering that favours children, or greater user fees.

Respondents were asked to score the performance of various actors with respect to “their job in commenting on the healthcare system” using 100 point, report card-type scales. Most earned failing grades, thereby setting a record for poor performance in COMPAS studies of perceived performance. Government health ministries and the medical associations do poorly. The Fraser Institute is the only institution that gets a pass, albeit a bare passing grade.

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