Long wait times have become increasingly common in Canada, leading some residents to travel outside of the country to have medical surgeries and procedures done sooner.
Surprise: when you cut and defund a service, and drive away the front line workers, then that service deteriorates.
The real question is: was it intentional (to promote privatization), was it incompetence, or was it apathy?
@PeriodicallyPedantic @sik0fewl
I’ll take “Intention to Privatize for Kickbacks” for $50 billion, Alex.
Funny as my wife has had to wait months for a specialist and we are in the US. She is lucky that she had a cancer that would kill her in two months that only needed surgery to treat.
Yeah at least Canadians get a vacation. I pay the same as an international trip but when I finally get to be seen it’s a worn out business park in the next town over.
Just to note, these people are well off. If it was someone that doesn’t have $12,862 (or the equity/credit score to take out a large loan) to pay for surgery in another country (with a working medical system), then they’ll die of being poor, and I’m sure many people have already.
so, i don’t know much about the whole pipeline issue. seem like this woulda been a neat place to put that money though.
ok well, maybe next time the money could go to the people that keep us healthy. as much as the general well-being of the entire nation is not a thing to prioritize when compared to the important things, like fossil fuel subsidies.
or bailouts.
maybe i’m just an idiot, but it seems kinda fucked up.
We’re just human livestock
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With long wait times becoming a defining characteristic of Canada’s health-care system,
Here’s the toxic spin.
By not stressing that our medical system is a temporary mess thanks to COVID fallout, it paints our system as normally a wreck. This is disingenuous and echoes the same irresponsible comments made by one of our political parties not in power and not possessing a history of care themselves.
Horribly irresponsible.
Here in Ontario Ford’s government is busy under-funding, dismantling, and privatizing our healthcare. This is a system that was in slow decline, COVID nearly broke, and which is now being abused by the government in power. This is anything but a temporary problem.
This was happening long before Covid.
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I’m just curious what they paid for these procedures.
12K for hip replacement for one of the patients.
We don’t have the capacity to support enough residencies and our accreditation process is too convoluted to import foreign labour. These are both solvable problems, but only with the political will to do so.
Canadians need to be less afraid of having their jobs stolen by foreigners. As our population grows, we will need more of everything.
Yup, people in Quebec goes to Cuba for cancer treatment for instance. Dental to India or Mexico or some Slavic countries, etc
