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I think what these politicians need is a nice, long stay in a hospital. You know, for research.
Really? After so many years of loss of funding, cost-cutting, layoffs, political meddling and privatisation? I'm shocked. Flabbergasted I say.
If only the government actually wanted to care for the people it supposedly represents. :(
It's almost as if most MPs see their positions merely as vehicles for personal gain.
please don't let them pitch privatization as the solution 😭
It's already partially here, and expanding
And the best part? The private hospitals are sucking up more tax payer dollars than the public hospitals AND they're delivering poorer service (and wait times aren't very good either). So basically they're wrecking one system and offering a worse one as a solution.
The person in charge of determining what cases private took and which went back to public, was a private hospital investor...so obviously he's taking the cases that they can make the most profit off of and dumping the difficult stuff back to public system.
That's literally the plan they have.
Cut funding for healthcare until it fails
Privatise it because "Public healthcare doesn't work in Canada."
Just like mobile networks are "more difficult to create" and why there isn't yet bullet trains connecting the country; because Canada is special.
Its called starve the beast.
Its their plan with practically everything thats public.
Nooooo I hate it. I'm American and I don't want Canada to slide backwards at all, the jokes about calling an Uber instead of an ambulance are real 😵
That's what happens when you have a premier who funnels the money for the hospitals into his buddies pockets.
I can't tell whether you're taking about Ontario or Alberta.
Yes.
Clowns at both helms
Of course the system has worsened. Like every other public service, it's stretched to the brink because we refuse to tax the rich enough to fund it properly.
This is what happens when you vote in cons who destroy public institutions for private dollars and leave a trench so deep, no other party can fund our way out of it.
Ontario is still dealing with the Harris debacle and that was 30ish years ago. Now we have captain cankles who’s a cuck for loblaws and privatizing everything he possibly can for our OHIP to be spread thinner by being used at private for profit clinics at twice the cost of public services.
We need real leadership that doesn’t bend over to lobbyists and corporate dollars in private home based off the records deals.
The previous provincial election showed it's what the people want. It's so unbelievably frustrating.
I don't care for the liberals and would love an NDP leadership, but their platform was non-existent during the last election. These parties need charisma and a clear platform to stand a chance. Left leaning people vote for liberal by default but they're arguably just as destructive as the conservatives in their own way, all while further stoking the conservative attitude further towards the self-destructive right.
These conservatives do well because they're loud, have easily digestible phrases, hate on Toronto, and pander to their mad/frustrated/racist/uneducated/wealthy base. I wish the NDP would stoop to their levels
All the public services are in crisis because the wealthy keep paying for politicians to neglect, defund or otherwise impoverish them.
Canada’s health care has been in a state of crisis since shortly before the Federal government offloaded governance of the system to the provinces.
The argument was that it let provinces handle healthcare in a way that was more regionally appropriate. The reality was that it spread the blame around between multiple provincial governments, and let Federal politicians evade responsibility.
I think this is more of a US funded psyop to make people throw away free healthcare and adopt the american model.
I am happy with the healthcare I have, I'd be dead without it.
Ya this site is owned by Postmedia which has U.S. ownership.
I wish people would check these things before posting articles here. Postmedia is the worst and supports a lot of perspectives that are purposefully looking to discredit our politicians, institutions, healthcare system, and way of life in general.
Have you recently waited 16 hours with an eye injury, fell asleep waiting for someone, anyone, to see you, decided the wait was worse than the pain, and left?
Or had a family member have a screening completely miss a cancer full blown their bones were crushed and spread throughout their entire body, only to be caught when they literally had less than a week to live?
Or you mother nearly killed multiple times by doctors giving her medication that was obviously causing her distress, strapping her down, and decide giving her more is the proper course of action. When that drug is explicitly black labelled to not use on a patient with their condition or age.
Conservative governments are the ones doing this.
Billionaires and hedge funds are the ones doing this.
This isnt a psyop. The private system is here.
It's been planned for ages.
Edit: Reading comprehension is low.
This is a rant against the private system. The bleeding out of funds to public sector. And the ones responsible for it.
The examples are actual personal experiences - just this year.
It's worse in alberta from what my relatives tell me.
With 3 terms of Doug ford in ontario, he's already essentially killed the public sector with his wage freezes and autocratic no debate sweeping bills.
No shit. Have you tried to get healthcare in the past decade?
Anything less than a fatal injury, or an illness that prevents you from working and therefore paying income tax, is ignored.
Only the healthcare?
The phrase “Family Doctor” has confused the living hell out of me growing up, I want to see a doctor, me myself and I, I am not signing up my family to see a doctor.
The many-month long waiting queue is not ideal either, I’ve given up trying to find a doctor and resorted to just going got the ER when things get worse.
The system is still functional if you are willing to be patient and not expect fast care for minor ailments. With private care if you can’t afford good insurance you’ll get no care or go bankrupt. As someone who was born and raised in the US and whose family is still there - you don’t want that nonsense
Let’s protect our system by voting in governments at the provincial and federal level (I’ve since become a citizen so I can say “we”) that want to restore and expand access to care and not hand it over to Manulife, Sun Life, Greenshield etc.
Just hire another round of BCG/McKinsey and let them explain the best way to get more productivity from some already stressed doctors.