If you want to talk about healthcare, when I went for a procedure at the McCaig building the other day, I was having a hard time finding a parking space. Under the building are 5 levels of parking. The top two levels are for patients and the bottom 3 levels are for staff only. When I went upstairs there were a number of staff in red outfits casually chatting here and there, not appearing to be working. It struck me that our hospitals have become huge inefficient bureaucracies.
It has always irked me about the standoff between Trudeau and the Premiers with regard to increased funding for healthcare. Trudeau says he won't give any extra money until the Premiers can show positive results, and the Premiers say they are unable to show positive results without the increase in funding.
Hopefully Trudeau is gradually coming to realize that we have to try something different with our healthcare, because of the horrendous waiting times. His latest friendly comments with Dougie Ford in Ontario indicate he may consider going along with the funding of more privatization, by allowing some of the procedures to be shifted from the hospitals to private clinics e.g. various eye operations and joint replacements etc.
I believe the lack of privatization is what sets us apart from the top 9 best healthcare countries in the world, that are ahead of us. I believe that a majority of people in Canada will tend to resist this, until they realize they won't have to pay for the services, and the efficiencies created will drastically reduce wait times.
People don't realize how much of our healthcare is already private. A lot of private healthcare is already being done in the provinces. For example, all the little offices run by GPs are private businesses, that operate for a profit.
If Trudeau goes along with this, and we start gaining some ground in our healthcare, I might even start to show a tad more respect for him.
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