An opinion poll on Public versus Private health care system in Canada.

[Scott Mayers]

On 30/11/2017 at 6:33 PM, CITIZEN_2015 said:

There is an ongoing discussion in another thread already but this is a poll.

I believe our Public health care system in Canada is sick and needs reform. What is needed is to allow private clinics, private hospitals and private doctors and nurses making house calls. Our health care system is the worst. Something has to be done as our population is aging. In my view a move towards privatization is the solution. Lets those who can afford it to pay. After all we always pay (more) for everything which is better. Why on earth should health should be different. Should we also ban the well off from buying healthier and more expensive food? So why ban private health care? It is stupid in my view. Who is the honest politician with the balls who will do what is right rather than what is politically right? Privatize the sick health care system in Canada to make it healthy.

Let"s hear from you citizens. SEND A MESSAGE TO THE OUR POLITICIANS by your votes. This Citizen voted for the Mixed health care system in Canada.

If you are 'rich' already, there is nothing to stop you from paying someone with the credentials to any degree of desire you like to hire for health care. Nothing stops one from hiring a psychic if they desire to 'aid' them, whether this is a legitimate expertise in your health or not. So, given you have the money, you should be able to find some professional health carers (doctors, nurses, support staff) that would no doubt be willing to be your private health care providers. 

If this is too high a bar to expect given you don't have THAT much wealth, get a group of those with similar interest of the same wealth class as yourself. If you can find enough similar friends, you can collectively hire some such health care qualification 'private' workers. 

Let me just stick with this 'extreme' of wealth first to see how you might think of it. We can work our way down the 'wealth' degree if we at least find to what limit you agree to.

Edited December 9, 2017 by Scott Mayers

[dre]

6 minutes ago, ?Impact said:

There were 68 unmatched residency graduates from Canadian medical schools this year (yes it is the highest in recent years), not the 1000s you suggest. You are talking about International medical graduates, not Canadian or American. Note that the largest number of unfilled positions (over 95%) is for family medicine, that is because the students want to specialize and there are limited positions for their specialities. If more wanted to be family doctors, then we would have no problem at all. I am not sure where you get your information from, I generally go to an official source and not someone with an agenda.

 

All the details can be found here (pages 48-51 are most relevant): 

Yes I'm talking about foreign doctors who come here and pass our exams... and still cant practice.

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Last year approximately 2000 foreign trained doctors applied for residency positions. They were able to apply for the residency positions only after they got pass standing in the required examinations. Among them approximately 350 doctors got their desired residency positions.

Again... there's about 10 thousand such doctors in Canada right now, and again these doctors all passed or in some cases aced our medical exams.

[Argus]

14 hours ago, ?Impact said:

There were 68 unmatched residency graduates from Canadian medical schools this year (yes it is the highest in recent years), not the 1000s you suggest. You are talking about International medical graduates, not Canadian or American. Note that the largest number of unfilled positions (over 95%) is for family medicine, that is because the students want to specialize and there are limited positions for their specialities. If more wanted to be family doctors, then we would have no problem at all. I am not sure where you get your information from, I generally go to an official source and not someone with an agenda.

 

All the details can be found here (pages 48-51 are most relevant): 

I would not say that 'if more wanted to be family doctors' we'd have no problem. We don't have enough doctors because the provinces aren't training enough doctors as part of deliberate policy. Ontario cut the number of residencies last year. It also cut 50 positions the year before. Yet people can't find family doctors and there are long waits for consultancies with specialists. It isn't that residency positions are going vacant, except in certain circumstances. Ie, in rural Quebec where you have to have French fluency. And one of the reasons we have Canadians as international students is the government also restricts the number of medical school positions available, as well as the number of internships.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/06/17/no-easy-cure-for-left-out-medical-school-grads.html

Edited December 9, 2017 by Argus