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Originally Posted by llama64
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...
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Disagree completely. I can count on one hand the number of colleagues who have left for the US, and one of them has since come back. For reasons already mentioned, and a slew of others, it isnt as desireable as people think.
You know what the biggest cause of surgical/colonoscopy waitlists are? A lack of procedure/operating room time, not a lack of surgeons. If the surgeons could, they'd operate a hell of alot more with their time but they are handcuffed by only having access to the OR 1-2 days a week, and limits on how long a nurse/support staff can work (ie. Union workers).