Global- Majority of Canadians support private options for health care, poll shows
The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News between Jan. 19 and Jan. 23, 2023 found 59 per cent of the 1,001 adults surveyed expressed support for the private delivery of publicly-funded health services. Sixty per cent of respondents were also in favour of private health care for those who can afford it.
Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, says in the 30 years he has studied public opinion in Canada, he has never seen such a shift in support toward privatization.
Not a surprise to anyone paying attention. Especially after the last 3 years.
Private-sector health care has long been held back in Canada by confusion over what the Canadian system truly is. Many think we have socialized health care. We don’t. We have socialized health insurance. Much of our health delivery is in private hands, and always has been.
The left-wing parties have long preyed on that confusion to prevent private health care from expanding.
The doctors are quasi private, but not much else. In my province at least, every hospital is administered and staffed by civil servants, thus the dogshit quality as government does nothing cheaply or well. If only health insurance were socialized, actual service delivery would be more like dental care, patient focused, the latest technology and you can get whatever you want…tomorrow if not today. Socilaized health insurance does not create 16 month waits for knee replacement, 9 month waits for MRI’s etc., etc. Only government can make that kind of mess.
There are tons of private clinics and laboratories in Alberta. When I had my eyes operated on, it was a large private clinic.
Was there a wait?
About three months for each operation, which was fine. It was cataract surgery and not (too) urgent.
KM, why the wait? Could you present to that clinic and spend your own money on immediate treatment?
You should have seen the Liberal female man hating candidate go blank a few elections ago when i asked why it was okay to get a publically paid for abortion at a private clinic but not a knee replacement. It was glorious
OFF TOPIC: Since February is “Black History Month”, we should get a petition going to CELEBRATE Canada’s first black PM, Justin Trudeau.
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/black-history-month/about.html
Lets wait for idiot history month, shall we?
After 3 years of freedom flattening, the role of the medical system (and I don’t just mean LYING about Ivermectin) has shown the mistake that is government run health care.
I will go get a blood draw today and will put on a MANDATED mask (that does nothing to protect me or others) because the Saskatchewan Health AUTHORITY refuses to admit its mistake and correct its behaviour.
They sold their credibility for a mess of pottage.
No link to the questions… nor sample selection.
That being said, most of health care delivery is done by private organizations (medical corporations owned by doctors, hospitals owned by foundations, etc) , the devil will be in the details, and I’m sure there will still be market restrictions (example, a profession athlete can get an MRI immediately, paid for by their team, but a taxpayer cannot do the same).
The Doctor-Patient relationship was superseded by the Doctor-Government and Doctor-Big Pharma relationships years ago. We have fixed nothing if we don’t fix that.
Funny thing that.
“Just two weeks,to save the healthcare system”.
Only to endure two or three years of abuse via “Medical Emergency”.
Even the most obtuse Canadians recognize that Government Run Healthcare is dead.
Deader than Monty Python’s Parrot.
Only problem is,we have poured billions into this promise.
A promise that was always a lie.
But “Maths is hard”.
We now have a wonderful bureaucracy,saturated with high priced paper handlers and an abused,demoralized and angry handful of actual medical providers.
I get so much better service from my vet.
Maybe the answer is to “identify” as a bear and demand the vet treat me?
A service ,a “free service” no less,promised but infinitely postphoned….
Differs from a service DENIED,exactly how?
But your healthcare number will be checked a hundred times and the forms must all be obeyed and filed..so you can wait another 18 moths to 3 years for “Life saving treatment”.
And the staff are punished for caring.
They have broken protocol..
So they seethe in frustration as you die in the waiting line at Emergency..
Now that is one hell of a system.
Just another “well kept” Liberal Promise.
Why ,just like our “Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms”.
“Do it already”.
Many are already writing “Government Help” off.
Seems they are more interested in killing us.
Paying attention to ones own health and habits being step 1.
Having a “Cross Border for Treatment fund” becoming step 2.
Although Mexico,India and The Phillipines seem to be the borders being crossed.
For that “Publicly Funded” bit is pure sarcasm.
That money ,over half of our taxes,is long stolen.
Many Canadians with any financial means at all have already been voting with their feet and wallets. I’ve had two private surgeries in the last decade, I’ve got a neighbour who’s in Mexico right this moment at a clinic that specializes in hip replacements, and my rellies in Normandy keep telling me to come for a visit and “coincidentally” get whatever care I need from the French system (a public/private hybrid) while I’m there.
It’s about time that the genpop caught up with the trend. The pols, as usual, will probably be the last in the parade, and will pretend they’re out in front.
It’s already happening in Quebec, where they have private clinics.
As long as fifteen years ago, during an earlier Federal election in which Alberta was once again being demonized by the Laurentian legacy media for wanting to reform its health care system and mebbe open a private clinic or two, it was pointed out by various wags that, at that time, Montreal already had more private clinics than the rest of Canada combined.
This info was studiously ignored, of course.
“Many Canadians with any financial means at all have already been voting with their feet and wallets.”
I had a wealthy cousin who was told by Sask Health regarding his cancer: Sorry! Nothing we can do. He headed to a cancer clinic in one of the border states, paid for his own treatment, cancer was in remission for around 8 years. It came back, he headed to Mexico, was treated, got another two years before the Big C finally got him. 10 extra years of life.
Think about how much of the cost of health-[we don’t]-care is paperwork and administrative overhead.
Wait… it’s better not to think about that.
What are the chances that the Dear Leader and his family have used private health care in Quebec, where it has long been an option?
I would say it is a certainty.
Justin would never wait in the emergency room with his kids at three in the morning.
We’ve had a entrenched class system for decades. It’s time that people woke up to that fact.
Well, Chretien certainly did.
And I believe the native guy he adopted was also treated in the US after he tried to play pack the fudge with one of his blood sisters, but I may be misremembering things.
Not to rain on the parade but I recall when the majority of Canadians were in favour of capital punishment. How did that work out?
Spineless politicians like Robert Stanfield were the problem.
Health care, like airports, pensions, sewers, education and many other amenities, is a benefit that citizens may choose to “give” themselves out of the public purse. The perennial problem is that government turns every simple task into a monster bureaucracy that sucks the funds and resiliency out of every project that falls within its grasp.
Let’s put all the public money that is controlled and raided by huge government agencies, into citizen “national dividend accounts” that are the individuals’ to manage. Pay for your child’s education, for an MRI or dental implants without waiting for approval by millions of minions. It’s your money, why do you have to go begging to government to get some benefit from it – such benefits as our government handlers will eke out?
It will never happen as long as the public health unions are around. They will protect their turf no matter how many patients it kills.
Public sector unions in general, protecting the stupid, lazy, incompetent, otherwise unemployable dregs of society for years.
Why has opinion changed? Because the system is falling apart from mismanagement. People are dying in the queue. And the useless bureaucrats are deliberately rationing emergency and surgery just to piss people off so they get more cash put into the bottomless pit. They make cancer patients wait months for an MRI. Why do ruthless cold-hearted bastards want to enter the medical field? Because they are overpaid for minimal skills.
“The problem comes when you enter a hospital you are viewed as a cost…not a customer.”
Ralph K
When I take a cow to the vet he gives the bill to the owner…ME!
When I go see the doctor he gives the bill to owner too.
/sarc on
Will, this poll was obviously hacked
/sarc off
Remember folks, according to top liberal economists and analysts if we have more private healthcare facilities then those private facilities will poach employees from the public system.
Which is why we should never allow any new businesses, they will just poach employees from existing employers.
No new mines, no new restaurants or bars, no new factories.
Hey, maybe we can combine two stupid leftwing concepts: All the laid off fossil fuel industry workers can be retrained to become doctors and nurses.
“Hand me that 36″ Rigid pipe wrench, nurse.”
Confession time.
I’m ashamed to admit that there was a time in my life where I was against privatization of health care services. I was concerned over the so-called “2-tier” health care network where the best health care would only go to the people who can best afford it, while everyone else… well, you get the idea.
But after experiencing increasingly-long wait times, and my personal experience over the last three years where I have actually witnessed doctors violate their hypocritic oath to do no harm to appease their government overlords (and line their pockets at the same time), not to mention the censorship and sanctioning of physicians who still have a moral compass, I’ve come to the conclusion that the public health care network is just not delivering services to *anyone*, rich or poor, so now my position is that the individual must take the responsibility over their own health care away from the state.
We’ve all experienced what socialized medicine means. It means eventually, we will get to the point where health care will be “rationned” to those who need the services the least. Case in point, MAiD. Look at how far that slippery slope we have already slid down. It has come to the point where I can no longer trust public health care, and I am now skeptical of any medical advice offered by my own assigned personal doctor. My trust in the public health care network has been completely decimated, so yeah! Let’s go ahead with private! DO IT ALREADY!
But let’s face it. They won’t. Not in this “new world order,” where the order of the day is to get rid of all the “useless eaters.”
“…violate their hypocritic oath…”
Perfect Freudian slip…
There is a famous episode of the British comedy, Yes Minister, where the minister visits an award-winning, publicly-owned hospital with 500 employees, but no patients. The hospital administrators and the head of the hospital unionized staff want to keep it that way. Soviet-style health care at its finest!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5zEb1oS9A
I recently had both an MRI and a CT-scan, both at private labs, both within 2 weeks of requisition, both paid for by Alberta Health. That’s the contribution “Private” health care can make.