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Originally Posted by edslunch
How do you implement these other country solutions given the constraints in your second paragraph?
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We probably can’t. I don’t expect the health care capacity crisis in this country to be fixed. Over the next 20 years it will become common for those who can afford it to take medical vacations and have procedures carried out overseas. And the rest of us will complain and blame our political enemies for ever-increasing wait times.
I’d be curious to hear opendoor’s suggestions for increasing resources. What’s the political path to Canada reaching substantially higher levels of public health spending? We could follow Japan’s lead and run massive, historically unprecedented budget deficits year after year. Or adopt Northern European taxation models - but which political party is campaigning on raising the GST to 15 per cent and across-the-board income tax hikes, and what are their odds of getting elected on such a platform?