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This is the reason your ER doctors are leaving: You don’t have a family doctor, and you can’t get an admission bed. So you end up waiting and waiting in the ER for a physician (www.thestar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is the ‘slow walk’ to private (read:profitable) health care in Canada.

All these business interests pushing the governments to ‘let it ride, until it breaks’.

Then they can swoop in, take over, and CASH IN BAYBY!

Money, favours, and stock options speak volumes.

[–] FireRetardant 5 points 7 months ago

Not to mention our tax dollars will fund private, for profit clinics while our free services are underfunded and understaffed. Our free healthcare system is stressed and failing to intentionally bring in the privatization