[Canada] This is the reason your ER doctors are leaving
[Canada] This is the reason your ER doctors are leaving
You don’t have a family doctor, and you can’t get an admission bed. So you end up waiting and waiting in the ER for a physician who might not be able to help much, writes Dr. Brian Wall.
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In some provinces there is a somewhat obvious scheme driven by those who deliberately underfund and sabotage the health authority so they can have the excuse to say " Public healthcare doesn't work. We need to privitize." It is a scam.
Public healthcare in the rest of the country is doing poorly too, but it didn't used to be this way. Canadian healthcare used to be top tier, but it hasn't kept pace. I don't believe this is because of any inherent flaw in the original healthcare system. Population growth in some areas without concurrent infrastructure investment is a factor, as well as other political issues not related to socialism have played a part. Covid of course put a strain on the already stretched system that hasn't ever really recovered.
I am convinced the Canadian healthcare system could be restored to its previous functional state, if it were made a priority. Unfortunately for Canadians, the liberal (federal) government can't be relied on to do anything, nor the provinces as far as I can tell.