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Originally Posted by moon
That's assuming that every doctor in Canada stays here and thus the doctors who would be in private care would all have to come from the current pool of doctors in the country.
There are plenty of doctors that currently leave Canada because they don't want to work in the universal system.
Doctors have the option to leave the public-sector right now for more money, the difference is now those same doctors get to stay in Canada and help Canadians.
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I'm certainly a vicious adversary of any form of private health care system - such a fundamental social service has to be managed in a public manner as far as I'm concerned.
But... the problem you mention is real and certainly the biggest challenge facing public healthcare these days (closely followed by piss poor management).
It's even worse for nurses. Brand spanking new nurses are finding more and more that they can get better pay and better hours in the the United States and can more importantly find avenues for advancement. In Canada, new nurses are treated like dirt by the system and advancement is basically non-existent except for a privileged few. It's entirely based on time served with very little consideration for merit.
How do you balance encouraging professionals to stay in our system without selling it to the highest bidder? I have yet to see anyone answer this question in North America. Apparently we are supposed to believe a person's health is a commodity to be traded. Such an evil notion...