The Collapse of Canadian Public Healthcare

Maybe some of the 500,000 immigrants per year the Liberals plan to bring to Canada will have doctors and nursers and support staff.

Paladin1 wrote:

Maybe some of the 500,000 immigrants per year the Liberals plan to bring to Canada will have doctors and nursers and support staff.

Nurses’ burnout rate is accelerating, with a record 47,000 vacancies in England and 40% fewer working in social care than 10 years ago. For a government missing its recruitment targets, the only enticement is better pay, so facing down the nurses is not an option. Oliver Dowden sounds absurd when he tells Sky, “We have well-oiled contingencies in place”. Where is his phantom army of spare nurses? Agencies will not provide strike-breakers. Brexit stopped the flow of EU nurses; 48% of new nurses still come from abroad, many of them from countries, such as Nepal, that the World Health Organization says should not be targeted by the rich world for recruitment.

RELEASE & REPORT: Fraud, criminal conviction, misrepresentation and unlawful user fees: New report exposes a “Wild West” of for-profit health care in Ottawa private clinics

A new report released by the Ottawa and Ontario Health Coalitions contains shocking revelations about the ownership and management behind private health clinics in Ottawa. Based on a five-month investigation, Freedom of Information requests, corporate filings, interviews and court records, the report paints a picture of a dangerous and disturbing “Wild West” of private clinics operating with little or no oversight.

The report centres on the South Keys clinic featured in a flurry of media reports last fall when its “Clinical Director” announced that patients would be required to pay a $400 annual fee to access primary care by a nurse practitioner. At the time, Health Minister Sylvia Jones promised an investigation, noted the Coalition. No update has been forthcoming and the Health Coalition reports it conducted its own inquiry into the clinic resulting in three major findings, as follows:

1. A review of the two key statutes establishing the legal rights of Ontarians to primary health care services confirms that the $400 per year fee recently introduced by the South Keys clinic is unlawful. The Coalition called on the Ford government to stop stalling and enforce Ontario’s and Canada’s Public Medicare protection laws. The Coalition called for an investigation into the charges levied on patients, and said that the scope of this investigation must be expanded to examine the ownership and management of the South Keys clinic and another Ottawa clinic co-owned by the same individual.
2. The owners of the South Keys clinic and a second related clinic – Neuromotion Therapy – appear to have been convicted of serious crimes including 64 counts of insurance fraud and sexual assault.
3. The Coalition also identified a troubling pattern of misleading practices in the marketing of these clinics. A number of individual practitioners who are now, or have been, listed on the roster of the clinics’ health professionals appear to live in communities far away from Ottawa, or were listed on the website long after they left, or never worked at the clinics.....

..the system at the top is corrupt. rotten to the core. captured by capital. are you blaming the people for this? are you blaming them for not uprising enough to overthrow the corruption?