Depends on the area. Ontario I had a few issues, but in BC it has been amazing (for me and my family). Its triage, so emergencies go first, and some folks have issue with that.
Healthcare should be run as a 100% financial loss. Like armed forces, the point is not to generate profit or even to break even, it is to provide an essential service. Right now there are doctors offices, hospitals, labs, and specialists who are forced to cut corners because the price they are paid per service is set by OHIP (in Ontario) but the rent on their building, the cost of equipment and the cost of living keeps rising. On top of that, hospitals have massive administrative staffs and boards of directors who suck facilities dry regardless of whether they actually provide any value.
A fully government operated system buys or rents the building, buys the equipment, pays medical staff, and provides administrative support. All costs, no revenue. There is still an incentive for the government to provide the best care possible for the lowest cost to tax payers but there is no middle men trying to balance care with keeping the lights on, or trying to squeeze a new boat out of this quarter’s crop of cancer patients.
clearly you and doug ford do not share many values. to many, especially in the context of a colonialist nation like canada, the point of government is to facilitate the conversion of value from natural and human resources into private wealth. that’s why the nation’s founders created our great country.
At least you don’t have to go into debt to get your malpractice!
Seriously,
CanadianOntario healthcare is terrible and has only been propped up by ‘at least it’s not the USA’ for decades.Ontario…you bitch endlessly about declining healthcare.
Also Ontario, you vote Doug Ford majorities.
Depends on the area. Ontario I had a few issues, but in BC it has been amazing (for me and my family). Its triage, so emergencies go first, and some folks have issue with that.
I can’t comment on Canadian healthcare but here in Ontario it is the worst it’s been my entire life, which is longer than I care to say.
Healthcare should be run as a 100% financial loss. Like armed forces, the point is not to generate profit or even to break even, it is to provide an essential service. Right now there are doctors offices, hospitals, labs, and specialists who are forced to cut corners because the price they are paid per service is set by OHIP (in Ontario) but the rent on their building, the cost of equipment and the cost of living keeps rising. On top of that, hospitals have massive administrative staffs and boards of directors who suck facilities dry regardless of whether they actually provide any value.
A fully government operated system buys or rents the building, buys the equipment, pays medical staff, and provides administrative support. All costs, no revenue. There is still an incentive for the government to provide the best care possible for the lowest cost to tax payers but there is no middle men trying to balance care with keeping the lights on, or trying to squeeze a new boat out of this quarter’s crop of cancer patients.
oh is that what the armed forces are for…
clearly you and doug ford do not share many values. to many, especially in the context of a colonialist nation like canada, the point of government is to facilitate the conversion of value from natural and human resources into private wealth. that’s why the nation’s founders created our great country.