CMA president says privatization 'will not fix' health-care problems
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2022
- Newly elected Canadian Medical Association (CMA) President Dr. Alika Lafontaine says he agrees with the premiers who met in Moncton, N.B., today that the status quo in health care is 'no longer an option.' He says support for the public health system needs to be addressed before looking at other options.
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Nothings going to fix the problem unless you all start caring about it instead of abusing it politically, financially and for you’re own gain. Shame on you!
Just like the War on Drugs won't solve the problem. But it will make some people very rich. Because it's a business.
Purposely underfunding a program until it becomes dysfunctional in order to justify privatisation is criminal.
We need more doctors and nurses not higher paid doctors and nurses, money doesn't cure fatigue.
Foreign practitioners is the only immediate solution.
We fast tracked their entry into the country based on their profession, find a path to expedite their acceptance to practice.
Outsourcing to private facilities who charge more will only rob the system of its ability to fix itself.
Outsourcing will run up huge deficits since paying an agency that pays their nurses more only costs us up to 3 times more.
That same money could have paid for 3 foreign trained nurses and actually solve the shortage problems.
So how much is Doug Ford going to snort out of this? I mean make out of this
The bloated bureaucracy in all sectors involved {government, doctors heirarchy and the unions}
needs serious reforms from an independent expert review free of the monetary and political pressures that are systemic.
Sorry, aliens won't arrive for another thousand years or so. Nothing else will be allowed to interfere with the PROFIT. Not even our own self-extinction.
He who dies with the most toys - dies...
My mom was a nurse 1956 to 1981, I have heard these explanations for the cut backs since I was a little kid. Please do your history research, I think your knowledge is lacking or you are trying to cover up something.
We need more medical clinics,nurse practitioners and doctors. Right now patience are using ER's because of lack of access to doctors and walk in clinics.
Great interview, good questions, Vassiliki!
Dr Lafontaine is a knowledgeable man and is well spoken. You’ve demonstrated that with him.
IMHO, there’s nothing more important than health. Education, wise personal choices, and medical care when necessary. It’s one big all encompassing domain and we all have an important responsibility within it. Take Care. 😁
The exodus from public health care system such as retiring early, emigration and private practice should concern all premiers. Our systems are hemorrhaging irreplaceable talents. Show some urgency!
remove govt involvement. Never put govt in charge of anything
Privatization is the best way to dismantle our health care system. It's bad enough we still need insurance for dental and vision care and mental health.
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What about those who can’t afford it?
@@aiko2d730
Can't afford what? You privatize your healthcare, you'll be paying like the US.
Reread what I said. I don't think you understood.
@@MelissaHogwood Americans pay out of there pockets for appointments… idk how you don’t understand that. So again how would people who can’t afford to see a dr, see one?
@@aiko2d730
I DO in fact, understand that.
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Are you basic?
Perhaps I should rewrite my original comment for your understanding...
Making healthcare private would dismantle (take down) our health care system. We in fact can't afford that. We use insurance for things that are also unaffordable and sometimes not even covered by insurance. Insurance, that doesn't even cover the whole thing.
Get it now?
We NEED our universal health care. Wait times happen in the US too.
What we need is free/cheap but difficult college for future nurses and doctors. We need to incentivise work that we need in the country.
Students need to be paid to go to school to become doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. All this talk of privatization isn't intended to fix the problem. It's a conservative idea. Conservative ideas are never intended to fix problems.
The issue is there are significant number of students who want to be doctors in Canada, yet seats are so limited that qualified students are actually going abroad for schooling. And often, these students can't come back to practice because training seats are limited as well. it is just a vicious cycle. we have people who want to be doctors, but can't yet we scream about the shortage we have
Medical association does not want to accept more doctors in Canada and the foreign doctors that are here with experience and education cannot enter the system due to the Gatekeeper
You highlight the problem. Other than no one want to be a doctor because of the process is too long. I saw 15 years experienced operator doctor. He is in here 5 years and he doing food delivery and this is the system push those people away. At the end, all of the experienced doctors catched by Germany and other european countries. I have no word explain this stupitidy.
Healthcare should be Public and never privatized.
Communism has never worked. Look at Milton Friedman and educate yourself.
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Yes no doubt smudging and tossing tobacco in the air is the answer.
'What evidence do you have that dying is a BAD thing?'
Maybe Doctors should address patients health concerns.
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doctors take responsabillity, and do the job properly, there will be enough money. When people can actually live and work, then there is enough money to pay the doctors, system unworkable because doctors always blame the patient
Privatization will not fix it. However not allowing these small private fixes will just keep adding pressure to the current system that works in a vacuum. All reforms at this point is needed.
well getting foreign doctors is not a fair solution for jobless, yet competent young Canadian physicians. There are enough grads who do not have jobs and has to hop from one temporary job to another in Canada or ultimately move to the States without really wanting to. Although our HCS is public, hospitals are run private and there is a serious problem of bureaucracy in regards to how each hospital hires staff. Not to mention there are many older doctors hogging patients and not wanting to share waitlist by hiring new staff. Young doctors are seen as threat to already established doctors who see them as competitors and so many are used and tossed out after a temporary job offer. Some are given false promises of job offer, with a prerequisite to work under established staff, do researches and get unnecessary Master and PhD. Even then, the job falls onto foreign staff or a less qualified staff that are seen as less threat to existing staff, to safeguard their legacy and reputation. The government needs some kind of control over private hospitals in order to have clear hiring process- both giving opportunities to young physicians while actually helping to reduce waitlist from older staff.
If that's true about MDs can't find a job in Canada (which completely defies the reality that ppl see everyday), then they need to talk to their dentist friends and learn how to start private practice. Work for a couple of years then take a loan and open your own practice and you'll be busy before you even open your doors. That ain't the problem of this system.
Might not fix it but it sure would help.
For those who can afford, should be given private services
When he said privitization wouldn't help because they have the same amount of people and they're just going to move into a different system, I chuckled. It's like he assumes that there will be the same demand in a private system. You can be sure as hell that someone with the sniffles isn't clogging up a hospital in a private system.
Actually, after paying health insurance money for gold standard private health care, private systems are clogged with wealthy people with the sniffles.
@@shirleyhill2982it's not just the rich that access private healthcare. Employees of Companies with health insurance will likely use private healthcare services first before public for quicker service
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What a pointless interview, does he have a plan other than pointing out problems? Not a single specific solution was proposed. sounded like he was just there to complain about cuts
Canada is becoming worse every day anyway!!! Salary are low (while cost of living is skyrocketing), which is why we have so many Canadians and immigrants who are becoming so anxious, depressed and facing all sorts of mental problems), people are moody, quality of life is decreasing and transport is trash compared to France and the lack for doctors is making this country look like a third world
Economy!!! Even Canadians are happy to leave this place (poor weather, lousy healthcare, lousy retirement compared to places like France, lousy transportation compared to most of Europe, worse mental health services than Europe, people are too serious and take things so seriously compared to the French) and honestly, we think of leaving it too for another country.. that you can trust me! (My 2 younger sisters are actually leaving and makes plans to leave Canada behind for good to immigrate elsewhere and my older brother plans to relocate to a warmer country.
.. and NO!! I am not going to buy a 1 million dollar house in Vancouver or Toronto at the expense of my well being!!! It ain’t worth it no more!!! Better buy a place in Europe.. like France or Portugal!!!! There houses cost 2 to 3 times less.. sometimes more if you know where to buy!!! I do not want to end up lonely and alone in this cold and anti-social society that Canada is once I retire.. do you??
How about holding the people accountable for destroying our health care system for their inept mismanagement during COVID
He's not afraid to speak the truth about Canada's broken healthcare system. Thank you!🙏
He is part of the problem.
AI doctors could save the day
lol we need more nurses and doctors but we just pumping out real estate agents …. This is gonna end well .. ~__~
Well leys try anything better than current b.s
Being black in Canada has never been different now than it was sometime ago.
Can you share more?
Why Can't the 70,000 Thousand Ukrainians that Were Brought to Canada Work at the Hospitals ?? or Have They Received so Many Donations That they are Rich and Don't Need to Work ??
It's time to reintegrate private healthcare back into the public system while fixing healthcare for all Canadians 🤡👍🇨🇦
why would i believe the CMA that lobbies for doctors and probably makes more money than Doug Ford? That's right.
Premier Ford knows what is best for the Province of Ontario because he has the power, since power involves knowledge.
You're funny 🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭😊😊😊🤣🤣
Rofl.. oh Christopher you kidder.
It should be private, like in the states. Why should gov rule and tax more and more each year?
Put in extra hours to pay for your pandemic. Work harder if you want one.
Hmmm hasn’t the CMA been submitting “Recommendations for federal action to address Canada’s health care crisis” yearly to the House of Commons for a long time and hasn’t our healthcare system been deteriorating every year?
Seems like a Privatized Healthcare System is the best thing for Canadians
I know I could sure use that 70% of every tax dollar back in my pocket and used to fund my healthcare instead of everyone else’s
@@recycledbeansalad I completely understand the definition of “recommend”. I also know how much weight this “recommendation” holds from this federally funded Association
Yes you can pay twice as much as the rest of the world like we do in the U.S. And we also have backlogs here.
@@franzmajcyn3836 lmao. I don’t think you know how much Canadians pay for healthcare that the individual doesn’t even use. 70% of every taxed dollar goes towards healthcare, whether you use it or not. You also pay that regardless if you have benefits or not. Your benefits actually cost you more on top of what you already pay. Average income in Canada is 54k, tax rate for that bracket is 20.5%. That’s around 11-12k a year in taxes, 70% of that is roughly 7.5-8k towards healthcare that you may or may not use. That’s also only federal without provincial taxes which also contribute but not nearly as much because of the federal aspect of healthcare
@@franzmajcyn3836 oh regarding the backlogs, we have to wait for scans sometimes up to and over a year. I haven’t been able to get in to see a physician (he just quit doing video appointments) for over 2 years. Surgery wait times are usually around that year long wait depending, as well. Emergency room wait times haven’t been below 4 hours in over a decade in alberta (even the small hospitals which usually send you to the bigger ones cause they don’t have the staff). Doctors visits are mandated for 10 mins at your family doctor, any longer and you have to book two appointments blocks back to back
Don’t care
oh you will
The socialist health care should be an example of what will happen to a socialist society.