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Have had more experience with the health care system than I would have preferred the past six months, as both a close relative and a close friend ran into problems which required medical intervention. It brought home (again) how crappy our system is. 8hr waits at the ER and months long waits for diagnostic tests, then even more months long waits for specialist services. The relative was given an appointment for a consult with a surgeon the other day - for November. And was told the only reason she got it that fast was because she went through the ER. Otherwise, they're making appointments for March. Canadians still seem to be under the illusion we have one of the world's top health care systems. Because we only ever compare ourselves to the US. If the provinces just spend a little more instead of cheaping out all will be fine! Only it won't be. We have a socialist health care system we share only with Cuba and North Korea in that it bans the sale of private health care. No one else does this. NO ONE ELSE DOES THIS. Why did we imitate Cuba and North Korea? Because Trudeau wanted to take on the mantra of the great saviour of the people and introduce a national health care system which would take care of everything. Even though it clearly doesn't. I came across an OECD study from 7 years ago which puts our wait times at the longest in the OECD. We STILL have the longest wait times in the OECD, along with fewer doctors, hospital beds, ICU beds and diagnostic machines per population than almost any of our allies. Yet as a recent report documents, we're actually paying more per person for health care than almost all other countries (the US always excepted of course). As Conrad Black points out, the earlier health care systems designed by Tommie Douglas in Saskatchewan and Quebec's Claude Castonguay had user fees and limitations, both of which Socialist Trudeau ignored. But small user fees - usually waived for the poor - are standard in most countries. As Black points out, and which I agree with: Of course, even if it were entirely factual, our conception of our own health-care system would be completely insufficient as an explanation of our national purpose. And in fact, the claim was essentially nonsense from the beginning. By banning private medicine, Trudeau drove 10,000 doctors out of the country in the first couple of years. Our ratio of doctors to population is inferior not only to almost every other advanced country in the world, but even to such places as Argentina and Cuba. With an insufficiency of doctors and no user fees to discourage frivolous recourse to the health-care system, we are stretching an ever-tighter amount of available medical services over a steadily growing population. As a result, we end up rationing health care. The widespread belief among Canadians that everyone is receiving adequate health care at an affordable cost is essentially a fraud. If we incentivize the graduation of more doctors, and enable those who chose to, to deal with legitimate problems outside the public health-care system and have the costs deducted from their taxable income, a great deal of pressure would be removed from the public health-care system and much more comprehensive treatment would be available to people of modest means. We need a massive revamp of our health care system to bring it more in line with what western Europe has, and that includes the introduction of some private health care as well as user fees. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-s-health-system-ranked-second-last-among-11-countries-report-1.5533045#:~:text=The report ranked Canada 10th,equity and health-care outcomes.&text=Canada also ranked 9th out,as reason for its placement. https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2020/11/10/canadas-health-care-expensive-and-lagging-behind-oecd-countries/ https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-ranked-last-among-oecd-countries-in-health-care-wait-times-1.1647061

If people are ultra far right like the Republican party, then CBC must be very upsetting. Otherwise it's well within the norms of political discourse.

I suggest ANYTHING in ANY category of life that has a dime of public funds involved is public information and should be available at the drop of a hat to anyone who asks. I also believe anything shown by the CBC and APTN should have viewership ratings and numbers available immediately upon request. The party would be over quickly if such information were available and it certainly should be if a dime of public money is involved - which is the case.

CBC is 100% pure propaganda for the LPC.It is sad that they hate half the population.

That's a propaganda network's way of saying "This is the will of the sheeple!" You'll see he same kind of state propaganda if you go to NoKo. "75% of the population is against allowing a 4th style of haircut in North Korea. The 'Glorius Leader' is still the most popular cut for the twentieth year in a row."

I have said it before. We need private health care alongside the public one that we have. This way those who choose will pay for their services like tests and surgeries and hence reduce the burden on public health and thus improving public health care system in Canada. It will be a win-win situation. Those who can afford it will pay and get a better and faster service and those who can't afford to pay will still get a better and faster service as demand for public system will be reduced. I don't understand the mentality of support for having a public health only that all political parties are supporting. No party has the ball to do the right thing and allow private health care to thrive in Canada and everyone wins.

When i'm elected ruler of Utopia, my 3 rd act is to disassemble the liberal propaganda site called the CBC, turn it into a 24 hour fishing and hunting channel show, bring back Don Cherry and free NHL packages for everyone...and kill most Canadian content, starting with Canadian big brothers, Canadian bachelor, or any reality tv shows Us or Canadian like Vancouver wives, or any of the other thousand shows like it.......or shows about traveling dogs like the littlest hobo, Ok maybe thats going to far the dog was a good actor ....bring back trailer park boys, Super Dave Osbourne, and the friendly giant ( if you don't like this show, then your a liberal and you know what is going to happen to them fella's) ... and MASH reruns and Holmes on homes. My first one is to have all green party members and voters locked up on a special island surrounded by sharks, killer whales, armed patrol boats filled with black Israelis "Just on principle" ... The NDP fans and members sent to a concentration camp in the far North for reeducation and forced labor refreezing the ice pack with portable coolers powered by solar energy and kale and other leafy green vegetables ....and in the summer planting trees, the ones Justin promised, but could not grow... ....Next is to put a bounty on all liberal fans and members 5 bucks for every ear that you bring into the DMV... Relax you softies we only want their ears, no animals will be killed or harmed in the making of this movie, besides they don't listen to anyone anyways so they don't really need them...after which we are going to send them to Antarctica to nurture the penguin population, keeping them warm and feed in the winter and keep the ice fields from floating away or melting... we also will rework out immigration policies, only conservative minded people will be allowed in, and only in small numbers. and on the seventh day we will rest, to attend church or drink beer in the streets, party like it was 1999. we will call it leftist purge day, here you can turn in any suspected leftist in exchange for 5 bucks and a coupon to the strippers, or a case of Kraft dinner...