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I'm a Canadian American, who studies the US health insurance market for a living... privatization would be fucking disastrous.
If you want an idea, just look at paid parking near hospitals and how fucking expensive those lots are... and you still can't get a fucking spot.
The only way to reduce wait times is to increase supply or reduce demand... wait times will only significantly decrease if healthcare is unaffordable to the majority of Canadians or if we better fund public healthcare to attract more doctors.
Wait a minute! So if I buy your healthcare, and start defunding it, while simultaneously increasing prices, thus reducing the number of patients at the same rate as the services are failing therefore not increasing or perhaps even(!) reducing waiting times through prohibitively high costs,
I can both sell privatisation as a success story, AAND make record profits with my pals in the insurance business through cost cuts and price increases!? And I even end up with a less empowered workforce who's healthcare is tied to their employment and therefore unable to negotiate better salaries or leave for a better job easily? Kinda like medieval serfs??
Stop please stop! I can only get so excited (and I can't afford an ambulance) Big /s of course