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Harry's avatar

Quebec allows private clinics, and surgical wait times miraculously drop. Who’d a thunk it? That suggests that the biggest problem in Canadian healthcare is, er, central planning. Let’s face it, we have a Soviet healthcare system: the only countries in the entire world that emulate it are Cuba and North Korea. Every country in Europe has some combination of private and government healthcare. And they’re all cheaper, faster and better than ours.

Andre L Pelletier's avatar

Cuba's healthcare system is also pretty advanced all things considered.

The biggest issue, like most things, is demographics. Our population is aging very quickly.

GJS's avatar

To be fair, who could have predicted that emulating the soviet system would have soviet style results?

Part of our problem is that the feds hold the purse while the provs deliver the service. It makes it too easy to point a finger at the other ("you don't give us enough funding!" "we give you lots you just spend it poorly!" repeat ad infinitum).

But yes, the efficacy and efficiency of permitting private clinics to perform routine procedures is well documented.

Suggestions that our salvation lies in throwing more money at the existing, broken system are absurd.

Harry's avatar

And a big chunk of cost is the administration that provinces and doctors have to do to in order to provide Ottawa with data about where the money went.

And you are correct: it’s not just about money, as there are many other jurisdictions that spend less and have shorter wait lists and better outcomes.

Beth's avatar

The annihilation of our healthcare system, including the elimination of private physicians, suppressing cancer cures as a means to population control, limiting access to affordable healthcare for the elderly here and around the world, and inducing heart attacks as a form of assassination was planned 60+ years ago by the members involved in the creation of the NEW WORLD ORDER now rebranded as The GREAT RESET. This was addressed in a March 1969 speech given in Philadelphia by Dr. Richard Day. The WEF UN WHO are all intertwined. Their sole mission is world domination through depopulation, creating a ONE WORLD government, healthcare, military, financial system, military and religion. Both Bush Sr. and Clinton gave speeches about "achieving a New World Order". The current WEF regime of billionaires and politicians is working tirelessly to attain their goal at the overwhelming detriment to the citizens of the world.

GJS's avatar

Maybe lay off the edibles for a while.