This is the reason your ER doctors are leaving: You don’t have a family doctor, and you can’t get an admission bed. So you end up waiting and waiting in the ER for a physician

3 years ago by RehRomano to c/canada

You don’t have a family doctor, and you can’t get an admission bed. So you end up waiting and waiting in the ER for a physician who might not be able to help much, writes Dr. Brian Wall.
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MyDogLovesMe 23 points 3 years ago

This is the ‘slow walk’ to private (read:profitable) health care in Canada.

All these business interests pushing the governments to ‘let it ride, until it breaks’.

Then they can swoop in, take over, and CASH IN BAYBY!

Money, favours, and stock options speak volumes.

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FireRetardant 5 points 3 years ago

Not to mention our tax dollars will fund private, for profit clinics while our free services are underfunded and understaffed. Our free healthcare system is stressed and failing to intentionally bring in the privatization

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