Kanadas Gesundheitssystem ist das drittteuerste, belegt aber im Vergleich zu anderen Industrieländern den 27. Platz bei der Verfügbarkeit von Ärzten: Studie

I will always advocate for universal healthcare, but there is no denying our current system has some major issues. We were at our local emergency room recently with our newborn (fever) and the whole place was overrun and it was so clear there wasn’t enough staff to meet the demand. Everyone who helped us was incredibly kind and helpful, but we waited a long time for something that is relatively serious for someone our son’s age.

Unfortunately I think our piecemeal individual Province system has so much added complexity and cost without a benefit. Countries similar populations or more are able to deliver better without breaking down their negotiating power into 12 or 13 different groups.

And I’m always beating the dead horse, but our housing situation since the ’80s has driven up the cost of delivering Healthcare because the cost of retaining healthcare employees has to go up relative to the cost of housing . If they can’t live near where they work they will burn out and we will lose institutional knowledge. It’s been happening now for 30 years drive till you qualify was bad policy in every single province.

I believe wholeheartedly and everybody should have access to health care without a requirement to pay for it. But there has got to be a better way of delivering that is a less hospital-centric approach where beds don’t need to cost multiple thousand dollars a day for people to manage a broken leg, a cold, or a host of other ailments that have no real emergency demand.

This is something which really should be federal and not provincial. It makes no sense to have 13 different systems which are failing.

For those saying that our health system is underfunded, please read the article.

„Canada spends the third-most on health care compared to other high-income countries with universal health care“.

Money is not the problem.