The average Canadian puts a lot of stress on his or her feet—walking as much as 160,000 kilometers in a lifetime, according to some estimates. It’s no wonder that consumers spent over $90 million in drugstores last year on footcare products.
Proponents of activity-based funding say it can reduce wait times and bring market discipline to healthcare financing. But Canada, virtually alone among industrialized nations, has yet to try it on a large scale
