Canada falls short in several areas of health care...OECD countries, report says

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Found this interesting

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First part , it’s worth reading

[Guest]

Can’t read it

[chuckChuck]

The reason why we are spending less than the OECD on primary care is that the provinces are underfunding primary care to balance the books. They don't want to put enough money into training enough healthcare workers and doctors and paying them in a fair way. Family doctors are not getting enough fees for each visit that would attract them to family medicine.

They also don't put a priority on family medicine by making sure there are enough family doctors. So may of the ERs are full of people who could have been seen by a family doctor but they don't have one.

In resource rich provinces we can easily pay for much better primary healthcare that would reduce wait times. But no, the cheapskates who are responsible wont raise the revenue and as a consequence you can thank Curly Moe and Danny Smith for all the rural hospital closures.

And many of you keep voting for this?

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Can’t read it

Wrong thread anyway I guess

[chuckChuck]

The reason why we are spending less than the OECD on primary care is that the provinces are underfunding primary care to balance the books. They don't want to put enough money into training enough healthcare workers and doctors and paying them in a fair way. Family doctors are not getting enough fees for each visit that would attract them to family medicine.

They also don't put a priority on family medicine by making sure there are enough family doctors. So may of the ERs are full of people who could have been seen by a family doctor but they don't have one.

In resource rich provinces we can easily pay for much better primary healthcare that would reduce wait times. But no, the cheapskates who are responsible wont raise the revenue and as a consequence you can thank Curly Moe and Danny Smith for all the rural hospital closures.

And many of you keep voting for this?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

How much is enough? Who gets to decide that? The average doctor in Alberta makes over $313,000 a year. How much higher do you think that number needs to be?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

How much is enough? Who gets to decide that? The average doctor in Alberta makes over $313,000 a year. How much higher do you think that number needs to be?

Isn't Chuck the poster who was advocating for redistributing wealth? Now in the next thread he is advocating for using tax dollars to give a raise to handful of elite who are already making more than $300,000 a year.

Perhaps Chuck should hire a proofreader to catch these blunders.

[cropgrower]

yes , docs need to be taxed less not paid more , as i said before you dont have a clue CC

[sumdumguy]

Does anyone on here realize what the overhead of a doctor’s office is? I believe that $313,000 is used to cover office expenses too, like nurse, receptionist, cleaning staff, office rent, utilities, licensure, equipment. Got any idea? Lop off at least half of $300,000 after upto 15 years of training for specialists, and exorbitant tuition fees.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Does anyone on here realize what the overhead of a doctor’s office is? I believe that $313,000 is used to cover office expenses too, like nurse, receptionist, cleaning staff, office rent, utilities, licensure, equipment. Got any idea? Lop off at least half of $300,000 after upto 15 years of training for specialists, and exorbitant tuition fees.

The stat I found referred to that figure as the salary.
Which would indicate that is what the doctor's practice is paying him or herself.

Edit to add. I am not disputing that a doctor is worth that. I'm just trying to make fun of Chuck's hypocrisy.

[foragefarmer]

The stat I found referred to that figure as the salary.
Which would indicate that is what the doctor's practice is paying him or herself.

Edit to add. I am not disputing that a doctor is worth that. I'm just trying to make fun of Chuck's hypocrisy.

"Isn't Chuck the poster who was advocating for redistributing wealth? Now in the next thread he is advocating for using tax dollars to give a raise to handful of elite who are already making more than $300,000 a year."

If not who are the "ELITE" you're referencing to in this post?