Juno News - August 21, 2025


Candice is joined by Colin Craig of SecondStreet.Org to discuss his new documentary


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2 minutes

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200.66335

Word Count

484

Sentence Count

19


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00:00:00.000 Well, one of the things is so interesting from the documentary is that they just don't really
00:00:03.760 seem to have real wait times in Japan. I'm going to play a short trailer from the documentary,
00:00:09.360 because you speak to a lot of people, people who work in hospitals, doctors, advocates,
00:00:13.040 all this kind of thing. Most people say, you know, average, you wait like maybe a couple days or two
00:00:17.520 weeks max when you need a surgery, which, you know, to the Canadian ear, it's like, wait, what?
00:00:22.240 How is that even possible? Well, you explore that. So let's play this clip from the documentary,
00:00:28.320 fixing Canada's health care lessons from Japan.
00:00:31.240 We're in Japan this week to learn more about their universal health care system
00:00:35.040 and how they have virtually no health care wait times.
00:00:38.240 Come on, let's go find out.
00:00:39.680 The wait time is not very long.
00:00:42.500 Basically, no wait time.
00:00:44.280 Do you have any wait times that are measured in years?
00:00:47.200 Not particularly.
00:00:48.940 How long is waiting time one in Canada?
00:00:51.980 Sometimes a year.
00:00:53.340 Sometimes a year.
00:00:54.120 Yeah.
00:00:54.440 A year.
00:00:58.880 Really interesting stuff.
00:00:59.800 You could see this sort of Japanese temperament, right?
00:01:02.040 They're, they're, they're trying to be polite, but they're kind of shocked when
00:01:04.080 you tell them about what things are like in Canada.
00:01:06.900 And so can you kind of unpack the reason?
00:01:09.400 Like, why is it that there's so much innovation, there's so many options,
00:01:13.220 there's so many choices in Japan, and yet they're still able to maintain
00:01:16.300 that universal coverage and people don't really pay that much out of pocket when
00:01:19.700 they, when they have major surgeries or even doctor visits.
00:01:23.180 Yeah.
00:01:23.560 That last doctor in the clip there, he was asking how long the wait times
00:01:26.840 in Canada because he couldn't believe it when I said it was a year like they were shocked people
00:01:31.300 over there were like stunned that Canadians would have to wait so long so to your question about
00:01:35.700 how uh the big difference is that in Japan they welcome people to enter their health care sector
00:01:43.020 and start providing care for patients I mean this is a novel concept but they want people to enter
00:01:49.260 if you have a you know qualified staff obviously but you can go in and open up a clinic that maybe
00:01:54.940 does knee surgery so maybe you open up a hospital they openly welcome it because the government
00:02:01.260 doesn't really care who's providing it as long as it's you know qualified people and that they can
00:02:06.220 help patients so the government sets the the rate for how much they will pay for different procedures
00:02:11.820 and that and then everyone knows okay these are the terms of agreement if i enter the market then
00:02:17.100 this is how much i'm going to get compensated for providing these different treatments for patients
00:02:22.460 So it's much easier. It's very straightforward.