Canadians pay by waiting. In some cases they wait a long time. (1) 1.2 million British Columbians are currently waiting to see a specialist: survey | Globalnews
This is a report on a survey of doctors, so it is told from their perspective, and hard to write off as insane patients whining about nothing.
More than a million British Columbians are currently waiting to see a specialist, a recent survey has found.
The Consultant Specialists of BC in partnership with Doctors of BC surveyed 1,000 specialists and said the results exposed a “waitlist crisis that is severely compromising the health and well-being of British Columbians.”
They wait four weeks for urgent cases, ten weeks for semi-urgent, and up to 10 months for non-urgent cases.
The video is pointless, though the part where the bureaucrats want more study and analysis of the data. But then the bureaucrats are blaming the COVID response, when doctors couldn't do surgeries. Of course that was a bureaucrat-created problem.
The article also doesn't break out what the different categories in the wait class mean, but the video seems to imply that orthopedic surgery - like for a bad hip - is not high on the list of priorities. That's only a guess on my part.
The simple answer is to hire more doctors, but since all doctors work for the government health care system, that isn't easy to do. But that isn't easy to do anywhere because the market doesn't impact on medicine anywhere, thanks to government bureaucracies and/or insurance bureaucracies.
Hat tip to Small Dead Animals: Best Healthcare System In The World
I can't wait until we have socialized medicine.
I worked at a company that did business in Canada. The executives of that company, every one of them, had a health insurance policy in the US so they could get immediate care when they needed it.
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