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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
I'm probably too idealistic but for quite a long time I have thought that public and private can work alongside each other up here. People that can afford private treatment or services already travel to places across the US, Mexico or internationally so why not keep them here and keep those dollars in the economy. Maybe a private structure can even attract some more doctors who see it as a good opportunity so that our public system is not always so stressed. It could even be an opportunity for health tourism dollars to increase in our economy. I understand there are also a lot of concerns and fears though and reality can be quite different from an ideal situation.
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Where are you going to get all the doctors, nurses, and other specialized medical staff from? If you have 100 doctors, it doesn't make a huge difference if 100 work at one place, or 50 work at each of two places.
Would medical graduates that move to another country stay in Canada? Possibly a few, but I doubt that it would be enough to make much noticeable difference.
You'll get the private facilities poaching all the easy / high paying patients, leaving all the challenging, medically complex patients for the public facility. So the staff that does choose to work there ends up with a more difficult job for the same (or less) money, depending on how the private facilities compensate their staff.