A Toronto-based research team met with and surveyed some 10,000 Canadians about the state of the health-care system — and what they found is deep dissatisfaction and frustration with primary care as the country grapples with a severe shortage of family doctors.
Whats insane to me is there is a huge shortage of doctors but I know at least 4 or 5 people in my cohort that are on the 3rd or 4th attempt to get into med school, and these are decent applicants. Then when you do get in you’re 6 figures in debt and signed up for 4-8 more years of schooling so of course everyone heads down to the states where you can make 2-3X what you would make here. Add the massive privatization push, awful working conditions for nurses, too much work/stress for not enough money and of course you’re going to see a massive exodus out of the system. Its just a mess
Nurses fleeing privatization are going to America?
Irony.
For my understanding its more a combo of overwork/underpay. A bunch left the field altogether after having annual increases capped for years, it just wasn’t worth it anymore. Might as well go somewhere where you’ll get adequately compensated.
You don’t need to “add in” the massive privatization push, FWIW. All of these others things are a part of it. Step one in privatizing an overwhelmingly popular social service (and something that has been a key part of our national identity for a few generations now) is to… Break it.
Break it to the point where it stops being integral to people’s understanding of the way things work.
This has been a long term strategy of starving the beast, and that is what has caused all of the rest.