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Originally Posted by Tyler
Actually, I think the biggest issue AHS has is keeping people alive, and this does in fact do that
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I'm certainly not discounting the value of work that AHS professionals do, but I'd encourage you to do some more research into the performance of this province on broader public health metrics. The government's
interactive health data website is an excellent resource for this, and the results are not pretty:
- As a province, we are in the bottom half of OECD jurisdictions in terms of
overall life expectancy at birth.
- We have the 7th worst infant mortality rate among 34 jurisdictions.
- This poor performance comes despite the 6th highest per capita total health spending (public and private) adjusted for purchasing power parity.
- Thanks to increases in operational spending by the current government,
we now have the highest per capita healthcare spending of any province in the country.
The point is that we can build as many cancer centres as we want and hire more and more nurses, but we are not going to solve the structural issues with the public health bureaucracy. We need to be studying the approaches to public health used in places like Japan, France, NZ, and Australia which all have lower expenditures and better outcomes. I don't know what the answer is but it's certainly not carrying on with the status quo.