Who wins when provinces contract health care? | About That

The province should not pay more for a private clinic to do this surgery than they pay a public hospital…

Andrew you are doing a very important job of addressing these issues!!

Maybe we should remove barriers to becoming healthcare professionals like irrelevant entry requirements to med school and make it less of a potential debt trap to get the required schooling… Why would anyone want to sacrifice a decade of their working life to come out with 400k in debt for a job they don’t know if they’ll find fulfilling in the long term?

The question no one seems to address is where the money comes from. If they can afford to pay private clinics almost three times the amount, why isn't our medical system better funded?

What I like about these pieces is that you present the problem in a balanced way but also offer hope. Canada can and needs to do better.

I am really worried for my kids under such inept government

I lived in South Korea, and I had a rhinitis surgery. It took ONLY 8 days to start surgery. And cost was 600 dollars and insurance cut half. So it was 300 around

Canada will never be the same again..Thanks Mr.Buck-a-Beer

You are doing an impressive work! The way you address each issue is perfectly on point! Very high quality journalism! Thanks!

Nope 👎🏼. NO TO PRIVATE

Just wonder where are the private clinic doctors from? If doctors are allowed to practice both in hospitals and in private clinics, how the waiting list can be shortened? What is worse is if med graduates do their residencies in hospitals and then choose to make money in private clinics, the quality of health care will deteriorate.

Don’t want to be an “Alarmist in any way” ….um no, please be an alarmist.

Thomas Sowell has said, “there are no solutions, there are only trade offs”. That couldn’t be more true than when it comes to healthcare coverage. I would be interested to know how MAID comes into play and how it affects peoples healthcare decisions. Plus, how do the Provence’s rank when it comes to the use of MAID, and whether it’s being abused to help relieve wait times.

Solution - Make the Private Providers get paid Healthcare Providers the same as regular Doctors of any kind. And how many thousands of qualified nurses and doctors from outside of Canada living here are not allowed to work at their trade? Rather shameful I believe

How much does Social Security spend subsidizing people that have to stay home due to a waitlist. Factor that in. Add absentism from work due to illness and account for the economic impact for having that worker at home.

You don't know what the wait time would've been without outsourcing. Comparing BC to Ontario is meaningless without comparing many other factors.

We’ve been running this approach in BC for years and our wait times are actually longer than Ontario’s… It doesn’t work. The question is: Why is your government pushing to bring it in when it actually makes things worse? The number one challenge is lack of staff, the number two problem is provinces restricting surgeries per hospital, and the number three problem is not having a shared wait list (even within provinces) for surgeries… Fix all of that before you join BC in making things even worse and then be the example that hopefully the rest of us can follow!!!

Wow About that provides very good information.

A centralized wait-list would be amazing. I've been waiting 1.5 years for a thyroidectomy.

How embarrassing to hear this man says "When we will stop AMERICAN STYLE HEATLHCSARE from entering our country". As an American I am truly embarrassed.