How to fix Canada's healthcare system
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Summary
In this episode, we take a deep dive into the problem of Canada's universal healthcare system, why it needs to change, and what we can do to fix it. We cover 5 things we could do to improve the situation.
Transcript
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40 minutes. There's a lot in it. We, of course, start off with the problem, just showing people
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a very important point. And that is that money is not the solution. We've been doing that,
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trying that for decades now. It doesn't matter if you talk about conservative governments,
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liberal NDP, people always try and politicize this. Governments across the political spectrum
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in different parts of the country, federal level, provincial level, they've all tried throwing money
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at the system and crossing their fingers and hoping for something to work out. And yet the
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results just keep getting worse and worse and worse. And one of the other points we make right
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off the hop is that we've got a lot of good people working in the system. They're trying hard. They're
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nurses, doctors, they got into the healthcare because they want to help patients. So we've got
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a lot of money in the system. We got a lot of decent people. The problem is the structure itself is just
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not delivering good results compared with other universal healthcare systems. And we explain that
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too, to show that Canada's not the only country with a universal healthcare system. France, Sweden,
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Norway, Japan, there's Australia, there's lots of other countries around the world that do what
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Canadians like. And that's the idea that everyone in the country is covered. You're not going to face a
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big bill when you walk out after having a heart procedure or hip operation or whatever. So there's
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lots of other countries that do what we want to do, and they're doing it much better than us. So the bulk of
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the video looks at some of the things they're doing differently. And we go through about five different
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policy options that we could embrace here in Canada and then start to see better results like what we're