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The camera or the film? The camera is just an icon I use everywhere, the film is a DIY pallophotophone recording of my voice.
My big issue with healthcare in Canada (Ontario specifically) is that providers who do not cut corners go out of business, because they are a business. A hospital is a private entity that not only has to provide care, it has to make enough of a profit that they can keep the the lights on, pay medical staff, pay non-medical staff, buy 3 to 5 houses per board member. It incentivizes cutting corners because anywhere that there can be profit there has to be maximum profits. If healthcare was run as a service where it is expected to be a total financial loss, all funding ends up going into healthcare or the people who support the health care staff, equipment and facilities.
the icon. cool.
ah i see what you mean. yeah i agree there, but we need also to retain medical staff in canada as well, that's a glaring issue we seem to have not solved.
That's largely because provincial governments...mostly conservative ones...are always looking to "cut corners" as the other guy was saying. Canada has a problem with underfunding healthcare in order to try and "save money", instead of treating it like a necessity and prioritizing as such. If what we are paying doctors or nurses isn't competetive, then we need to correct that before we start losing good workers. If that requires us to raise revenue in other areas, then that needs to be prioritized over cutting funding to healthcare itself.
Right now, the push seems to be privatization. And that is exactly the wrong direction, if the goal is to improve the quality of services.
If only we didn't have to subsidize the petro industry $29B, I wonder how many doctors and nurses that could pay for.