NP View: Mediocre health care for all!

The warning sign was a report by the CBC into overcrowding at hospitals in Ontario. The report was grim but unsurprising. The province’s hospitals were consistently operating at or beyond their maximum capacity. Patients were routinely receiving care in hallways and areas of the hospital, such as staff breakrooms and chapels, that were being converted to use as care wards.

Hospitals are overcrowded across the country . Health-care costs are eating up huge percentages of provincial budgets, and those budgets aren’t balanced . Meanwhile, political parties of all partisan stripes are locked in testy disputes with doctors over wages — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney right now, Ontario’s former Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne previously.

Step back from all the details and take in the system as a whole and a clear picture emerges: Canadian health care is already the thing we as a society spend the most on, far more than we’re willing to pay in taxation, hence our chronic provincial deficits even as the hospital hallways fill up with the sick and injured. The people involved in the system feel it’s underpaying them. Canadian health care ranks poorly when compared to other developed countries .

And this has been confirmed by the B.C. Supreme Court. The matter at hand was the private health clinic operated by Dr. Brian Day. The legalities are complex; the private clinic is allowed to operate as a private practice for some patients, but not for others, and Dr. Day had pushed into those forbidden areas, insisting that Canadians had a right to seek the full spectrum of care at his facility because B.C.’s public system was increasingly unable to provide essential care in a timely way.

The court could well be right about one thing: an efficient, private option that relieved pressure on the public one would threaten the public system, at least in its status-quo form — inefficient, ineffective, overwhelmed, bracing for a second wave. The court couldn’t really have said it any better: that’s the system Canadians must suffer to preserve. We note simply that this defence of the current reality is, in fact, the best possible case for reform.

In Montreal, what healthcare? when a GP retires, you wait years to be seen by a new GP and annual exams were cancelled years ago..... and we pay the highest taxes in Canada. 😡

Lots of people in Canada don't even have a family doctor.

Canada, where you take the best doctors and nurses combine it with the unlimited funding and produce mediocre results. There’s nothing wrong with the model, we just need to get sick less often. cdnpoli

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It's Canada. One can't expect any better. Money holds more worth than life in this forsaken country.

We have that.

BC is a cesspool for medical care. They’re useless. At least Dr Day provided options. Canada is a dumpster fire and their citizens proud of it 🙄

'Mediocre health care' at best and not getting any better.

If you want to pay, go to the states. Otherwise let everyone remain equal.

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