Think of it this way....if people have money, which many do, and they need health care, which A LOT do....and they need it in an urgent manner...NONE of them are going to wait here in Canada to get checked.
They're going to go to the US....and instead of their money going into the Canadian economy....instead the US gets it.
If the government would contract out certain operations, like Great Britain does, waiting lists would be severely reduced. Problem is it gets expensive.
Yet, there are positives in doing that....one being that the money stays in Canada....and we don't lose so many doctors and nurses to the American system.
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