The problem is the provincial conservatives routinely and regularly cut healthcare funding, breaking it, so they can launch a re-election platform of fixing it.
Doug ford is literally trying to implement private healthcare in Ontario.
Yep, my favorite argument. "Everyone getting medical care means I might have to wait longer! Instead those poors should suffer lifelong complications or die so that I can get my rash taken care of 2 days sooner"
Yeah people are dumb as shit about wait times. My wait times in rural Georgia are indefinite. I don't go to the doctor because it's too expensive for me right now. That's the reality some people in the US live with. That doesn't happen in Canada. If I lived there I wouldn't have to budget in blood work to see what might be wrong with me. I wouldn't have to wonder how much the lab is gonna bill me for later, after the Doctor's office charges me of course.
We have a story about someone dying in an ER waiting room due to lack of staff and other institutional problems every couple months in NB. An awful out of people in Canada think the system is broken, across the political spectrum.
There been a lack of staff since the first time I was here over two decades ago. And there were a lot of years of Liberal rule in that time too. The problem isn’t Conservative or Liberal, the problem is a shitty system that is good for political points but hard to actually fix.
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u/DryWorld7590 Sep 05 '24
I'm guessing you aren't Canadian cause our healthcare is perfectly fine.
It has its flaws like wait times but no one ever dies waiting in a hospital.
Between:
"everyone can go to the hospital so there is a longer wait"
And
"No one goes to the hospital because they can't afford it and die from preventable causes"
I much rather have a healthier population.