It’s a teddit link so it’s not contributing to reddit etc.
It getting harder to get timely appointment from recent years development in BC. It went from be able to book family doc in the same week to now about 1 month to 4 months away depending on how popular your doctor is. So with specialist it’s gonna get harder.
Well said. The American model is broken and Conservatives want us to emulate them. Socialized healthcare can work as long as it’s funded appropriately.
It’s more than just funding though.
'Canada is above the OECD average in terms of per-person spending on health care. Among 38 countries in the OECD in 2020 (the latest year for which comparable data is available), spending per person on health care remained highest in the United States (CA$15,275). Canada’s per capita spending on health care was among the highest internationally, at CA$7,507 — less than in Germany (CA$8,938) and the Netherlands (CA$7,973), and more than in Sweden (CA$7,416) and Australia (CA$7,248).".
Canada is a vast country which definitely makes the provision of health care a challenge. But Australia has around the same population density as us, spends a little less than we do and their health care is excellent.
Canada is saddled with administrative costs in our healthcare. I can’t remember where I saw it but believe it was a CBC article and Canada pays some of the highest administrative costs for any public healthcare system. We are paying for pencil pushers not people doing the actual healthcare. That has to change.
Parts of Canadian healthcare ARE privatized, though.