Auscandoc
Privatization of #Canadianhealthcare is touted as innovation—it isn’t. https://canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/02/15/privatization-of-canadian-healthcare-is-touted-as-innovation-it-isnt “According to health policy researcher Andrew Longhurst, data from Alberta demonstrates that increased #privatization of surgeries has not reduced #publichospital wait times, that it has actually diverted scarce health human resources from the public system, and has led to a 6% decline in surgical volumes across the province.”
Privatization of Canadian healthcare is touted as innovation—it isn’t.

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Show threadSir Osis of Liver 🇨🇦 🇲🇽Dec 8, 2024

@auscandoc

It's the same result after Saskatchewan went with private imaging. Wait times never budged, but costs were far higher at the private clinics.

They keep running the same play and getting the same results, but are adamant that THIS TIME will be different.

Show threadAuscandocDec 8, 2024
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver Yes “Nine months later, Saskatchewan’s Auditor General released a report saying the arrangement was not working as intended. In April of 2015 there were 5,005 people on the public waitlist for an MRI. Four years later, the public waitlist had doubled to 10,018.”
Show threadRandy CC is RealDec 9, 2024
@auscandoc @Sir_Osis_of_Liver Might not be working as intended from the Auditor General, but, it is working as intended for the private sector making profits.
Show threadAuscandocDec 9, 2024
@AoaI @Sir_Osis_of_Liver True.
Show threadDavid CrispinDec 8, 2024
@[email protected] would probably get similar data from #onterrible
Show threadAuscandocDec 9, 2024
@david_crispin Yup “Recently, journalists set out to find whether the taxpayers of Ontario were paying more, less, or the same for identical surgeries performed in public hospitals that are now also being contracted out to a private surgical clinic. The data showed that surgeries done in a private clinic are costing taxpayers up to 3.5 times more than identical procedures performed in public hospitals.”
Show threadderptronDec 9, 2024

@auscandoc If you want to know what privatizing medical care does, look south.

When people here get all scared we might have long wait times if health care were publicized I have a really hard time knowing how to respond because they're clearly quite stupid and have not been to the doctor in years.

Show threadEpistatacadamDec 9, 2024
@auscandoc similar evidence from England. But policy makers don't like evidence, indeed the UK health minister forbad anyone from doing or assisting in such monitoring of the effectiveness of the introduction of the market into UK healthcare, a ban that no one has reversed.
Perhaps the new UK health Sec could change that, but he won't, his sponsors won't let him.