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Originally Posted by Fuzz
No, they need to be broken into small pieces and privatized so people can make money off of the dying, instead of it going to waste like this guy. Not one shareholder got value out of this death. Tragic.
In a fair system he could have bid on treatment slots like a WestJet seat lottery, and with enough money bought himself life. Instead we don't allow that, so he died.
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The problem's with the healthcare system in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada are also very complex but then also simplified down the basics of just money and not enough of it for everybody top and down.
We know hospitals and ER's are really overwhelmed now and they shouldn't be. This poor guy was probably coded as urgent but so were maybe dozens of others at the same time with a lack of ER beds. This is one tragic example of a system that is crashing across the country under a load it's not designed for.
Everybody has completely different expectations of what various aspects of the healthcare system should be providing. If you talk to healthcare workers and they are honest, it becomes an eye opener. How do we best allocate resources, who pays more, who pays less, what is reasonable expectations for government healthcare, how much should family income be taken into account, at what role does family obligations come into play vs what the government provides?
If we take some of the politics out and have hard conversations with Canadians, maybe we get some answers. Should we be paying eye surgeons $5k for cataract surgeries that take 20 minutes but family medicine get's $50 ? Ophthalmologists and Radiologists are the highest paid in AB I believe and those payments were done at the time when technique and technology meant that work took a long time to perform, now not so much. How would they react to a significant cut in pay to better allocate dollars to the front?
What role should we as a society take in caring for our elderly? I would suspect a healthy amount of people in long term care could benefit from living with family and being helped. Some people want to do dinner and travel to Paris as opposed to help dad off the toilet and bathe mom. Some people want to protect inheritance and go cheap as opposed to putting parents in a top notch, $12k a month facility. It's the government's responsibility to look after the elderly they say.
I will admit I am not a fan of what the UCP is looking at doing with healthcare but I also don't think things have been functioning well at all before this. I also don't think AB is unique, everywhere is dealing with the exact same issues across Canada.