The socialist turd, never falls far from the communist’s ass.
You gotta understand that there is not enough money in the entire world to pay for all them docs and nurses and them otheones.
That is how socialism works. You wait your turn, even if it kills you. Just a collateral damage.
Gotta tell you, being about 12 years old in a socialist country run by communists, waited for a hernia surgery 2 years, remember it because it was such a long time.
There is no politician in this country that would do anything to change the system.
Ahhh … they will proclaim their devotion to it, they will pretend to do something about it, they will shuffle here and shuffle there while standing still, yeah, the politicians are able to do that.
As said above, there are really, not just semantically, really, not enough money in the whole world to pay for it.
Besides, the priority are the useless freeloaders that come to this country in droves.
“Best healthcare system in the world.”
And it’s free, FREE!
Here’s a site that shows number of doctors per 1000 people. Scroll down a bit.
Canada = 2.5
USA = 3.6
UK = 3.2
Germany = 4.5
Netherlands = 3.9
France = 3.3
Australia = 4.0
Japan = 2.6
So definitely a shortage of doctors in Canada compared to other countries.
But click on the USA and you can see the number of doctors per 1000 people over time. This surprised me.
USA
2023 = 3.6
2018 = 2.8
1993 = 1.9
Canada
2023 = 2.5
2018 = 2.4
1993 = 2.2
Question. Do we have too many doctors in administrative positions?
Answer yes. And the Big Ag food is poison, and big Pharma is making us sicker, and we are aging.
Listen to RFK jr. on chronic disease, it is a relatively new phenomenon.
Joe
I am assuming that your question is rhetorical. Go to any hospital in Canada and you will see significant administrative personnel that is far and away from what is needed.
Agree with you that there are too many administrators, but my question was, “Are there too many doctors in administration?”
“Canada is short 23,000 doctors and 42,000 nurses.”
Do you really think that the government cares? There is no money to pay for these services and the government just doesn’t care. Too many other pet projects to pay for. Die already.
A large part of our doctor shortage dates back to decisions made in the 1990s that there were too many doctors each billing too much. The solution – government, of course – was to reduce the number of doctors each medical school could graduate.
Fast forward rising 30 years, and – all of a sudden – we have a shortage of the “middle-age” doctors who would be there as the older doctors retired. Short-term thinking back then is leading to long-term pain now.
Frances
Agree with your comments but there may be another reason; female doctors.
One of my doctors, who is in his 60s told me his female colleagues work fewer hours per day than he does, and take more days off. A female nurse told me the much the same thing.
Now there may be valid reasons for this; family, work life balance, etc. but the health care system has not taken this into account.
$700 if patient pays herself
$5100 if insurance pays for it
US readers, does the above sound real?
Breast exam is the same thing in US, female I know was told $756 is what they charge insurance, she balked at that and asked what if they don’t pay? Receptionist said it would be $158.
US system is so opaque and crooked that you can rarely get a straight answer. States and Feds play off against each other and corporations, unions, etc.
Trump must have his eye on health insurance, it’s too big a frustration for too many people.
Yes. I have not had an MRI since a 2014 stroke but the cost for self-pay on most stuff is 50% of insurance cost.
You can’t even believe these numbers. As long as you keep thinking of healthcare as a program to be run by a statist bureaucracy, you’ll never know how many more (or fewer) doctors, nurses, etc., are actually needed. The whole system is political and corrupted. Until you have market prices and market choices, you will have system induced suffering and waste.
Remember the goal. They want you to die so that Gaia may be saved. So why support or increase healthcare?
Do Canadians not care about the long, sometimes fatal waits? In mid-August, I needed open-heart surgery for a double bypass, replacement of a horse aortic valve too big for TAVR, and patent hole. (6.5 hours on the table.) I was opened up on September 4. I am healthier than I have been in at least ten years. If I had to wait on this, I would have been furious.
My share of this $250,000 procedure was about $1600.
The socialist turd, never falls far from the communist’s ass.
You gotta understand that there is not enough money in the entire world to pay for all them docs and nurses and them otheones.
That is how socialism works. You wait your turn, even if it kills you. Just a collateral damage.
Gotta tell you, being about 12 years old in a socialist country run by communists, waited for a hernia surgery 2 years, remember it because it was such a long time.
There is no politician in this country that would do anything to change the system.
Ahhh … they will proclaim their devotion to it, they will pretend to do something about it, they will shuffle here and shuffle there while standing still, yeah, the politicians are able to do that.
As said above, there are really, not just semantically, really, not enough money in the whole world to pay for it.
Besides, the priority are the useless freeloaders that come to this country in droves.
“Best healthcare system in the world.”
And it’s free, FREE!
Here’s a site that shows number of doctors per 1000 people. Scroll down a bit.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS?
Data for 2023. Doctors per 1000 people:
Canada = 2.5
USA = 3.6
UK = 3.2
Germany = 4.5
Netherlands = 3.9
France = 3.3
Australia = 4.0
Japan = 2.6
So definitely a shortage of doctors in Canada compared to other countries.
But click on the USA and you can see the number of doctors per 1000 people over time. This surprised me.
USA
2023 = 3.6
2018 = 2.8
1993 = 1.9
Canada
2023 = 2.5
2018 = 2.4
1993 = 2.2
Question. Do we have too many doctors in administrative positions?
Answer yes. And the Big Ag food is poison, and big Pharma is making us sicker, and we are aging.
Listen to RFK jr. on chronic disease, it is a relatively new phenomenon.
Joe
I am assuming that your question is rhetorical. Go to any hospital in Canada and you will see significant administrative personnel that is far and away from what is needed.
Agree with you that there are too many administrators, but my question was, “Are there too many doctors in administration?”
“Canada is short 23,000 doctors and 42,000 nurses.”
Do you really think that the government cares? There is no money to pay for these services and the government just doesn’t care. Too many other pet projects to pay for. Die already.
A large part of our doctor shortage dates back to decisions made in the 1990s that there were too many doctors each billing too much. The solution – government, of course – was to reduce the number of doctors each medical school could graduate.
Fast forward rising 30 years, and – all of a sudden – we have a shortage of the “middle-age” doctors who would be there as the older doctors retired. Short-term thinking back then is leading to long-term pain now.
Frances
Agree with your comments but there may be another reason; female doctors.
One of my doctors, who is in his 60s told me his female colleagues work fewer hours per day than he does, and take more days off. A female nurse told me the much the same thing.
Now there may be valid reasons for this; family, work life balance, etc. but the health care system has not taken this into account.
Canadian health care vs. Germany:
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/corbella-canadas-health-care-system-overrun-by-administrators-and-lacks-doctors
Interesting story about MRI costs with and without insurance
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1894903740341121228?
$700 if patient pays herself
$5100 if insurance pays for it
US readers, does the above sound real?
Breast exam is the same thing in US, female I know was told $756 is what they charge insurance, she balked at that and asked what if they don’t pay? Receptionist said it would be $158.
US system is so opaque and crooked that you can rarely get a straight answer. States and Feds play off against each other and corporations, unions, etc.
Trump must have his eye on health insurance, it’s too big a frustration for too many people.
Yes. I have not had an MRI since a 2014 stroke but the cost for self-pay on most stuff is 50% of insurance cost.
You can’t even believe these numbers. As long as you keep thinking of healthcare as a program to be run by a statist bureaucracy, you’ll never know how many more (or fewer) doctors, nurses, etc., are actually needed. The whole system is political and corrupted. Until you have market prices and market choices, you will have system induced suffering and waste.
Remember the goal. They want you to die so that Gaia may be saved. So why support or increase healthcare?
Do Canadians not care about the long, sometimes fatal waits? In mid-August, I needed open-heart surgery for a double bypass, replacement of a horse aortic valve too big for TAVR, and patent hole. (6.5 hours on the table.) I was opened up on September 4. I am healthier than I have been in at least ten years. If I had to wait on this, I would have been furious.
My share of this $250,000 procedure was about $1600.