Imo it all comes down to finding. Politicians don’t want to spend money today even if it will yield huge returns for society down the line. The healthcare sector is hugely prone to market failure and cannot be left to private industry.
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and cannot be left to private industry.
Oh, absolutely. Which is why Ontario and Alberta are so hell-bent on doing exactly that.
Trust me, I know. As someone living in Alberta right now the future is scary.
Call it what you want, just fix it.
Easy to say it's not a funding problem, but he says himself median age is now 47. With an aging population how can it not also be a funding problem. We're funding medicare as though we still had a young population, but that's not the case anymore.
We have an inefficient system, but the real reason is that we haven't found a way to make dentistry/optometry/long term care public goods. They have lower barriers to entry than direct medical care in a hospital, so they're easy to privatize.