The results of this recent temperature check on the Health Care System were not a surprise to the Canadian Medical Association president Dr Kathleen Ross we need to be able to reassure people that when they need acute care they can go to the emergency department locally and expect to have care delivered in a
Timely fashion the data shows few Canadians are confident provincial governments are going to address critical emergency room wait times according to new ipsos polling conducted for Global News it found rough eight in 10 Canadians would support an expansion of virtual care I think there’s just a general appreciation that it increases
Accessibility for for many people it’s easier to do it that way 42% said they would go to the US for more timely routine care if they felt it was needed what we’re starting to see now are patients who don’t have a higher income who are more in that middle range that
Are are looking for Alternatives and 63% would support Private health care for those able to afford it federal health minister Mark Holland is ruling out that option saying it won’t help in the long run private care is not the answer uh that going and paying your way out of
Your circumstance creates uh creates a uh a terrible malady in our system private carriers will take the cases that are the most profitable uh and the ones and for folks who have money um leaving the public system um eviscerated but pollster Sean Simpson says unless Canadians see drastic
Changes and fast it’s unlikely these sentiments will shift so there’s not a lot of confidence in our leaders presently uh to be able to fix the solution and unless some drastic decisions are are made uh and some bold Visionary steps to address uh the challenges of the Healthcare System
Canadians expectation is that things will continue to get worse Katherine Ward Global News Toronto
Canadians don’t have much confidence that provincial governments are ready to address emergency room wait times, according to new Ipsos polling conducted for Global News.
It found roughly eight in ten Canadians would support an expansion of virtual care, and that 63 per cent would support private health care for those able to afford it.
The results of this recent temperature check on the healthcare system were not a surprise to the Canadian Medical Association president Dr. Kathleen Ross, who said that “We need to be able to reassure people that when they need acute care, they can go to the emergency department locally.”
And as health reporter Katherine Ward explains, people are looking for other options to get the care they need in a timely manner.
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It's far mor profitable to replace Canadians with new immigrants than to take care of Canadians.
What do you want the Canadian government do?
Understatement.
There is a massive structural problem with our healthcare system that is obvious yet nobody is talking about it. When you receive healthcare services from a provider (Hospital, doctor, lab etc.), when you leave you do not receive an invoice for the services you have just received. How do you know that the Health Service Provider invoiced your Provincial Health Insurance provider the exact health care services that you receive?. More importantly how does your Provincial Health Insurance know? You will notice that Provincial owned Auto Insurance companies do not have this lack of accountability. This lack of accounting is a serious structural hole that is a gateway for organized crime to exploit. Our Health Care system will not get better until this is dealt with.
PRIVATE HEALTHCARE IS NOT THE SOLUTION !!!!
Timely fashion? Receive care??!! Not in my experiences ??
We don’t even have a common database in each province. Doctors offices are faxing hospitals. Specialists are faxing family doctors. It’s pathetic.
Never gonna happen. The only people that have health care in Canada have connections on the inside.
doctors and executives at the top of these hospitals wont let that happen. to much $$$ to be made
This is Canada, a country where problems are never solved, they grow and become chronic for decades. The Liberal and Conservative political actors only talk and nothing ever happens so the years and decades will continue to pass and our problem of a sick and weak healthcare system will never be solved.
Without free healthcare canada would turn into the violent mess usa is
This was the federal goverments plan and American lobbying groups. TO cripple out healthcare system so we become like the Americans so that the 1% can profit off life and death.
Rosie O’Donnell sister is a doctor?
2.5 +++ million new arrivals don't help.
One must make enough to afford a certain lifestyle to be a doctor. They are like rockstars and sports stars. Do not study cuba doctors. Ever. Bad communist.
They want you to die, that’s the whole point.
It’s the federal caused problem we need doctors and nurses not politicians and protesters!
Holland! How will private hurt public, whomever can afford private will free up space for those who can only access public its a win win, you just don’t like the independence of people or the loss off power and revenue!
Well my wife died waiting for a Brain and Lung Cancer diagnosis, the Doctors asked why was this left so long, we could have started Chemo on her Lung Cancer and Brain cancer 6 months ago.
Takes over a month to see my family physician…maybe start there
Stop handing billions and billions of our tax dollars to Ukraine and maybe fix our health care after all that is, what we pay taxes for
It doesn't help that doctors offices that USED to be walk in clinics no longer take walk ins. Appointment only has become the norm in Mississauga anyways. So then where does somebody go when they NEED medical attention…the emergency room.
You know, it was Tommy Douglas of the NDP that got our Universal healthcare off the ground! It's time for some very capable and charismatic lefty to rise up and save us from ourselves.
Global News Trudeau's other state funded propaganda media. Please report the truth ?
Well, if people would just quit going there for a sprained ankle or fever like get go to the pharmacy get some cold medicine quit wasting time on acute case overload windows vital needs
Maybe it’s about time that Canada considers the internationally educated healthcare professionals. Instead of asking them to go back to school again & pay thousands of dollars before being allowed to practice here in Canada. Just because they graduated outside Canada it doesn’t mean they’re not qualified to do their job. Human anatomy is the same in all parts of the world. Stop making education as a money making scheme here in Canada!
Investigate the healthcare schools/colleges/ universities here in Canada as well as the licensing bodies. They are using education as a money making scheme. There are lots of immigrants here that are well qualified to do the healthcare jobs but Canada is making it difficult for them to get licensed & start practicing.Immigrants are already offering their services to Canada & yet Canada refuses to accept them not unless they “pay for their licenses “. What a waste of manpower! And then you complain of shortages. The answer is already in front of you.
Private health insurance and healthcare is not bad if it is executed correctly like Australia, for example
It's not okay. We pour billions into other countries.