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Originally Posted by you&me

The thing is though, there's already a huge competition for talent in the medical field.

Wait. Do you hear that? That loud sucking sound? That's the US, sucking up doctors and specialists from around the world, paying them 10, 20, even 30 TIMES more than they'd stand to make in Canada. Heck, on the last page, there are examples of pay disparity pushing 100% between the public and private sectors and another anecdote of how much less ####ty some of the private sector options are, compared to being on the front lines in the public sector (so it's not all just dollars and cents, but work environment, quality of life, etc).

So again, we can think / pretend / question whether paying more is right, or fair to other provinces, but really, we should be aware that there's already huge competition for talent and we either get with it, or swirl further 'round the bowl.

The real mind #### is that this isn't even an economic problem... We could afford to increase capacity and staffing tomorrow, but instead the biggest obstacle to at least making the system better is ideological... starting with that muppet in Edmonton.

I think it’s probably cheaper to educate more with punitive consequences if they leave within first x years. We currently have more demand for education in medical fields than we do spaces. So we have qualified people being turned away or going elsewhere to get medical educstion at the same time we complain we can’t hire people. Expand education spots.