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Originally Posted by Slava
The family doctor situation, the MRI situation, these are examples of areas where privatisation has lead to people facing long wait times and not having a family doctor. Its basically the exact opposite of what we want, right? If it hasn't helped here, why would it help to expand to other services?
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Are you suggesting that we move towards government run family doctors where you have two hundred salaried GPs in a big central building?
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Originally Posted by Slava
What it leads to is cherry picking by the corporations. They bid on stuff that is profitable, and leave the hard, messy and unprofitable stuff for the public system to deal with. I wouldn't hold that against a corporation, its just good business, but as a health care delivery model its pretty terrible.
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In my scenario the private companies have to bid against the established costs of the public system. If they cherry pick the easy stuff it is still saving money. And if there is a bunch of easy stuff that the public system is overpaying for then I would suggest we look there first to decrease costs.