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Originally Posted by Skweetis
All of these hospitals severely underfunded, and they also have staffing problems. I talked to one of the nurses back in May and they just can't find enough people, period. Why? They need to be paid better so that they have more people with incentive to get into the field. Their hospitals are just plain bad compared to what we have in the US. We have country clubs by comparrison.
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Thats because American hospitals benefit from the pursuit of profit. Canadian hospitals are private run but not for profit, or at least not for the dynamic market based profit that would inflate the costs. Its a tough choice really. Give everyone a slice or give some people a better crumb. That government in the 90s started to cut costs as a result of the massive national deficit explains much of why we're today so underfunded, the natural expensive tendencies of health care aside. But with the Canadian economy looking up and the Federal government receiving surpluses we should be able to see an increase in the federal spending on health care. There is also a movement to reform the system, hopefully without turning it into a bastard American system.