Fantastic documentary! Canada's healthcare system needs to be dragged into the 21st century and emulate what the best systems are doing. Every OECD country does this. Except for Canada. We're the last remaining Gov't healthcare monopoly on earth. Free markets are needed alongside a publicly funded UHC.
Fear mongering? Enormous amounts of tax money end up in corporate accounts as profit. And public hospitals end up with the complicated and expensive procedures that no company wants. Choose another path.
This is deceptive. The biggest difference between Canada and Sweden is the number of doctors per capita. Sweden has nearly THREE TIMES more doctors than Canada, per capita. Thus, there is enough skilled labour to spread around both a public and private system. However, in Canada, because there is no educational support, doctor count is severely bottlenecked. Any two-tiering of the system will find most docs scrambling to get out from underneath the provincial boot that continues to cut their wages. This will create scarcity of supply in the public system, and will drive consumer demand for private care, jacking up the prices and the profit. SecondStreet is nothing more than a conservative apologist, certainly not journalism. They do not seek answers. They only seek to create propaganda media for their bosses. Beware anything that secondstreet supports.
Sweden and Canada spend about the same on health care (some sources showing Canada actually spends) but Sweden delivers better results. OECD data (2022) shows that Canada has 2.8 doctors for every 1,000 people versus 4.3 doctors for every 1,000 people in Sweden. So it's not triple, but yes they have more doctors. Part of Canada's problem is that too many dollars are getting caught up in government bureaucracy and inefficiencies. Sweden is able to better serve patients by taking a non-ideological approach - they partner with whoever can best help patients and that often involves private providers. Second, no one is forced to use their public system. By allowing choice it helps take pressure off their public system. data.oecd.org/healthres/doctors.htm
The number of doctors available is key. For every 1000 Sweds there is 1 and 1/2 more doctor hours than what the 1000 Canadians have. Some solutions don't scale, depending on key factors.
@@CherryRed1 They spend about the same as us but get better results. One key difference is the ideological battles that are present in Canada are less so in Sweden - they partner with anyone, public or private, to deliver the best care.
The spend is one thing, and doctor hours also count. As a person who has not had access to a family doctor, or nurse practioner, for a decade, due to the shortage - the numbers count. The other thing that makes a huge difference is the Swedish system where people get training for what they wish to do and money and status are not the main draw for the profession. Where I live the existing private facilities were purchased by the government because they needed the facilities to deal with the Covid backlog.
