Ontario expanding number and range of surgeries offered at for-profit clinics

[dimsum]

My immediate questions after reading the article below:

• Where are the staff coming from, if not public medical facilities?
• If the changes were due to the backlog spurred on by Covid, why is he keeping them permanently?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-jones-health-surgeries-private-clinics-1.6715117

 

[Furniture]

Offer staff better conditions at public facilities and you wouldn't lose as many of them to private ones.

 

[Halifax Tar]

My immediate questions after reading the article below:

• Where are the staff coming from, if not public medical facilities?
• If the changes were due to the backlog spurred on by Covid, why is he keeping them permanently?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-jones-health-surgeries-private-clinics-1.6715117

Meah. With time this will ease and come back to normal. Just have to wait for some "population/demographic adjustments".

 

[Brad Sallows]

One of the reasons many countries with some variation of a public health care system spend lower fractions of GDP on health care than the US is because compensation in the US is pretty generous. Essentially, the US missed the window of opportunity to create some compensation cost growth friction at the time a lot of other countries were doing it.

Canada has been trying to keep that pressure bottled up. It's bound to eventually escape, and then the politicians and mandarins will have to deal with it. Hopefully Ford will succeed in popping the cap and we can get on with it. Then I will look forward to the essays arguing why its OK to find ways to hold down compensation for people in health-related fields, but police and soldiers and teachers and whatnot all have to have compensation which is competitive with the "free market".

 

[dimsum]

One of the reasons many countries with some variation of a public health care system spend lower fractions of GDP on health care than the US is because compensation in the US is pretty generous. Essentially, the US missed the window of opportunity to create some compensation cost growth friction at the time a lot of other countries were doing it.

Canada has been trying to keep that pressure bottled up. It's bound to eventually escape, and then the politicians and mandarins will have to deal with it. Hopefully Ford will succeed in popping the cap and we can get on with it. Then I will look forward to the essays arguing why its OK to find ways to hold down compensation for people in health-related fields, but police and soldiers and teachers and whatnot all have to have compensation which is competitive with the "free market".

If the majority of Canadians thought that soldiers should have compensation which is competitive with the free market, they're not exactly shouting it.

 

[Eaglelord17]

We are witnessing the slow collapse of our healthcare system.

Had to take a pregnant family member to the ER the other night, they spent 14 hours there as a priority 2, took about 10 hours to actually see a doctor. Meanwhile steady flow of crackheads coming and going from the ER.

Its getting progressively worse and without some drastic changes made today its going to keep going downhill.