As the Ontario Medical Association continues to sound the alarm over a family doctor shortage, one doctor said a move toward American-style health care is ‘happening already.’

  • @DucktorZee@lemmy.world
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    171 year ago

    Bwahahaha. Sure take the one thing every American doctor or medical associate, every patient and worker hates. That a great idea /s

  • Optional
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    141 year ago

    Think of all the guns and bombers you could buy with all that health money!

    • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      71 year ago

      I wonder what forces have recently created a temporary lack of nursing staff after so many quit because of ignorant hillbillies and their horse paste.

      Wait. I answered my own question.

      And isn’t it classic conservatism to fix a multi-year problem with a solution that will damage families for generations? Typical “I got mine so f-u” conservatives.

  • @collapse_already@lemmy.ml
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    61 year ago

    Socialized medicine administered by bankruptcy courts is definitely the best because it incentives not getting sick. If you can’t afford cancer, just don’t get it.

    Seriously, my wife was diagnosed and even with my reasonably good private insurance we were still out $7500 (our per individual out of pocket maximum) for her last year and this year. I paid another $1200 for my own healthcare last year. I also paid another roughly $6k in health insurance premiums. Most Americans cannot afford that. It has reduced us to living paycheck to paycheck, our emergency fund is gone.

    The U.S. and Canada should come up with a citizen exchange where disgruntled U.S. citizens swap places with Canadian morons that think this is somehow better.

  • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    61 year ago

    Wasn’t there a recent report that it was costing the province twice as much with privaye, and that one board member of private place under investigation because he was only accepting profitable patients and diverting low profit “customers” back to the public sustem