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Originally Posted by flamesfever
Simply raising wages is not getting to the heart of the problem. Trudeau is right when he says I am not going to simply throw money at the provinces. The main problem is the inefficiencies of the hospitals, as we have presently structured them.
The main impass, with regard to the Federal Government increasing the funding to the provinces, seems to be establishing accountability. With privatization, it seems to me that if the money is more targeted, in the case of funding these private clinics, the Government would more easily be able to quantify and compare results, and thereby justify the spending.
I believe it is common knowledge that the private sector is more efficient than the public sector, so theoretically moving the procedures from the hospitals to the clinics should give positive results with regard to waiting times. I believe this has been demonstrated in other countries.
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You understand there are positives and negatives for everything right? Privatization may be more efficient, although that is debatable, but efficiency comes with its own downsides. I mean, the United States may have a more efficient system in regards to wait times than our but it has plenty of drawbacks as well. We're not just going to magically fix this. We're basically going to trade some positives and negatives for another set of positives and negatives. Which, whatever, that may be the right thing to do. But certainly, there's no magic fix to the situtaion.