Health professionals told Canadians that restrictions were needed to protect hospitals, even though Canada’s per capita hospitalization rates haveThe truth is: Our hospitals were more vulnerable, because the overall system doesn’t work that well.the health-care system performance of 11 high-income countries. Canada ranked second to last , because of a poor showing in areas such as access to care, equity and health outcomes.
The attachment that Canadians feel toward Mr. Douglas, the mythology around Canada’s universal system and the way it has become politicized as a result is one of the biggest impediments to progress, many experts say. Canadians are so invested in the story they are willing to ignore the pitfalls. Medicare’s focus wasn’t keeping the population healthy and out of hospital. What it did, in creating a system where the final bill gets paid, but where none of the components are integrated or able to work together, is set up a dynamic for waste and poor care, critics say.
“It’s like going to the grocery store and you have $100, but there’s no price tags. You’re going to bust,” said Joseph Dahine, an intensive-care doctor in Quebec. “If you have no idea of the cost, you know you’re going to make some decisions that are more costly.” Fearing a looming economic crisis, Canada’s deputy health ministers asked medical research professors Morris Barer and Greg Stoddart to examine physician-resource policy. In 1991, the pair’sconcluded that Canada had too many doctors. They recommended a nearly 10 per cent reduction in the number of students being admitted to medical schools and encouraged governments to find ways to limit payments to current physicians, such as setting income limits for specialists.
Dr. Kusum Menon, a pediatric intensivist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, says that when she started working at CHEO 30 years ago, there were about 350 hospital beds. Today there are 134. It was an international embarrassment and in quick succession, two massive reviews came out of Ottawa, the Kirby Report and Romanow Commission. Between the two of them, the reports called for a variety of reforms, including more money to the provinces, changes to primary care, more medical and nursing students and more focus on preventing illness and injury. Other high-profile reports have come out since.
Health care workers attend to an ICU patient at Brampton Civic Hospital. The region’s hospitals, which were overflowing before the pandemic, have been battered by the past two years of the pandemic.This was the backdrop that Ontario Premier Doug Ford chose on March 15 to announce that his government would be adding more than 450 spots to the province’s six medical schools. Earlier in the month, his government agreed to pay eligible nurses a retention bonus of $5,000.
CovidVaccines and ostracizing those who didn't get one was just an immense scam: the fig leaf covering real problems, which is poor governmental choices in matter of public health. This article should be put in the first page of the globeandmail every day for at least one year.
Canada's health care system has collapsed while governments do nothing!!!
Were we not practicing hallway health care years before the pandemic happened? What’s so shocking
Wow what pandemic, do you know there’s a war happening 😂
Covid don’t create the problem. It exposed it and will still need attention.
it is not Canada’s crisis! it is a provincial Schlamassel
It remained long before the pandemic as well. Are people really that clueless about our health care system?
Well duh. Because it was never covid that caused this crisis. It was the damn goverment!
Yes and let’s add pharmacare and dental care on top of it, lol
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