Paul Stewart II1/4 🧵
Canada now operates with about half the hospital capacity of comparable countries, and staffing shortages make the gap worse. Yet outcomes remain competitive internationally. 🏥 This isn’t failure—it’s resilience under extreme constraint.
#CanadaHealthcare #HealthPolicy #UniversalHealthcare
2/4
Calling Canada’s healthcare “broken” skips the hard part. Since the 1980s, governments cut hospital beds per capita by >60%, even as demand grew. Not inefficiency—it’s decades of deliberate underbuilding.
#HospitalCapacity #PublicHealth #HealthcareCrisis
3/4
Privatization doesn’t create doctors or nurses. It siphons them from public hospitals and inflates costs. Countries with better systems didn’t privatize—they invested in capacity.
#HealthFunding #HealthcarePolicy #MedTwitter
4/4
If healthcare feels broken, look at policy choices, not universality.
My easy-to-read, fully researched, and footnoted article👇
paulstewartii.substack.com/p/canadas-he...
#CanadaHealthcare #HealthEquity #PublicHealth
Canada’s Healthcare “Crisis”
Canada’s Healthcare “Crisis”
