| Should private health care be more widely available? |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
If we need more cinics like for hip and jont replacement then yes but not private-for-profit the cinics should be government owned. And should be coved by our health cards. There should be public dental, public ear cinics as well as public dental. Health care is a human right. Thay did try privatization in europe It did not work and thay worn Canada not to adopt there system (private/pubic mix). There is a great systen in the UK (the NHS) however thay should get rid of the private secter and there health care will be even better. In the UK thay even have Drugs (P) thet the government pays for part of it. If Canada adopt some ideas from the UK without privatization and the UK adopt some ideas from Canada and get rid of the private secter then both Canada and the UK will have the best health care system in the world. :)
P.S. The U.S. system is the worst it 99.9% private. Yes pay or die health care. Canada should never adopt this system never.
Michael
Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 11:43 PM |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
There should also be public eye care. :)
I posted public dental twice sorry about that I ment to type "There should be public dental, public ear cinics as well as public eye care."
Michael
Monday, August 25, 2008 at 2:40 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I am a Registered Nurse and I know that having a private health care system will only increase the health disparities between people with high socioeconomic status and those with low socioeconomic status. While health services contribute a small amount to one's overall health status, having private health care will only pull from the quality of public health care. This will leave those people who use public health systems with fewer resources (money, staffing) and therefore the rich will have quality health care and those who cannot afford to pay will be left with substandard health services. Private health care will pull us into a very dangerous spot and we will be contributing to the health disparity between the rich and the poor.
Ashley
Friday, September 5, 2008 at 3:41 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Our money should not be wasted in Private Clincs, yes it will be privatly funded but they wil weasel money from the government. We have a good health care system it just needs updating, we need to spend money on new hospital equipment, updated facilities and training of more doctors and nurses.
Chris
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 7:52 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
it isn';t the privatization of health care that should be at issue here, but rather the lack of family clinics to go to. I know too many people who resort to the emergency centre in the evenings when they or their children are sick with an ear infection or sore throat. We need clinics to be available to allow hospital staff to focus on the really sick people in emergency. This will only happen if there are more doctors and nurses working in
kelly
Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 8:36 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
As a Registered Nurse, I can state we do not need privatization in Canada. We need polititians to stop looking for the easy way out and grab the bull by the horns and
stop listening to private interest groups like the CMA, who are only interested in
making bucks for their members. Start listening to Nurses who are on the front line
and see the results of not enough family physicians and not enough drop in clinics and
not enough nursing home beds. In New Brunswick, we are seeing the results of government plan of the 1990's, where nurses were laid off and beds were cut. New hospitals were built but with not enough beds for the community they serve. Here in my community we have many patients who are occupying acute care beds who just have no where to go because there are not enough nursing home beds. They cannot go home because they are too debilitated and there is no one to care for them. We need a new nursing home or a bigger one with more beds. The nurses training program is not putting out enough Registered nurses to keep up with the demands of retirements of older nurses. The government was told this by Nurses Unions in the 1980's but because the bureaucrats pooh poohed it, it was ignored by the polititians again. There are more people in the ER who come there because their child or they themselves are sick and they cannot get into their family doctor or they do not have a family doctor and the after hours clinic closed at 8 PM. The clinics should be open on Saturday and Sundays and holidays as well, not just Monday to Friday. As a registered nurse I am seeing the return of Decubitous Ulcers (Bed sores) because there are people who are trying to keep their loved ones home but they themselves have no help and are just too overwhelmed to do what is needed. Hospice does not exist in most communities and that is where some of these individuals belong. Others need special care homes and others can do well in their homes if there are people going in to check on them.
Lydia
Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 1:05 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
There is obviously a lot of misinformation on this issue. As a physician, here's what happens when private for profit care enters the "marketplace": Number 1: the healthiest and wealthiest get more surgery than they need - of course, this includes getting the surgery that they have been on a waiting list for within the public system but few examine what it means to have a "sellers" market on surgery......the private system profits from MORE so what will be offered even if physiotherapy or any other therapy would actually be better. Number 2: the public system loses physicians and services there being only a limited number of each Number 3: similar to number 1. If the way you make money is by doing CT scans, will you fully disclose the amount of radiation received by one CT scan? Will you order a less costly but safer test?
What drives the PPP system? Is it really the line-up waiting for surgery or is it the desire of surgeons and imaging facilities to make a profit? The line-up for mental health care is twice as long as that for knee surgery but we don't see the psychiatrists lobbying for private care.
Also note that the problem doubles for the patient who lives in St Elsewhere out in rural Canada. His/her physician now has to refer to twice as many physicians to get one who can see the patient in a timely fashion.
Been there done that. When putting sutures into someone's forehead makes me$120 and putting steristrips returns me $40, which would I choose?
Dale, a rural FP
Dale
Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 7:17 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privatization:
Less control on quality.
Raised prices on care as quality becomes questionable at 'lower prices'. Ofcourse, raised price doesn't necessarily mean better quality.
Head hunting of quality and limited access to quality therein.
In the UK, the drugs aren't partially paid for, all medications are Ten bucks.
Health care is free. Government funded.
We already suffer by losing skilled healthcare to the US. Low house prices, and high pay rates, with plenty of golf courses.
Privatization is not good for anybody.
I don't want to shop around for a heart transplant, or fight a legal battle over the cost of my spine. If I can't depend on a country for my very well being, because I may die in the waiting room (which has now officially occurred in Canada), then I ask: Why the hell am I living here?
Dooley
Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 10:37 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The wording for this question is a little tricky. Should healthcare be more widely available? Yes. Would more privacy be good when receiving healthcare? Yes. But this issue is more complicated then just having more because it doesn't suggest that "private" and "healthcare," two words that people like, combine to dismantle the public healthcare. Any "Private" healthcare implies that it is "For-Profit." I am absolutely against for-profit healthcare. I do not believe that any surplus in the price of medicine should line the pockets of private, for-profit enterprise. I want the people who are responsible for my health when I am ill to be responsible to the people who I elect to office, not those who are primarily interested in increasing their earnings.
I encourage you to ask the same question on your site, but replace the word "private" with "for-profit" and see if the results are any different.
Scott
Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 0:13 AM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
It scares the hell out of me that some people just don't get it. Private health care will not help us. Think about it...we have a shortage in so many areas of health care, so where are the ppl coming from to staff the pivate clinics?? our hospitals!! So if more ppl already leave the short staffed hospitals we have now, this will only increase our wait times and make working conditions worse for the staff that are already there. Just because someone has money doesn't mean they deserve quicker care then the rest of us. Maybe the government needs to invest money into health care and increase seats and provide recruitment and retention incentatives to make health care a more attractive area to work in.
Shauna
Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 8:49 AM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
it should be more widely avaible because, if people work for thier goverment earnings, it should affect them when they need health care assitance.
Haley
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 3:54 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I think that everyone has the right to healthcare. No one person is worth more than the other. Privatized health care is not the way to take care of the nation. People with money should not have an extra edge in healthcare, or receive medical treatment quicker. Our public healthcare system is not the best, it needs lots of improvements, but privatization is not the way to make it better.
Martin
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 7:06 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I think that health care should be .more open to the public because there are a alot of people who have problems like hearing problems,colds,broken arms and legs. I also think that the hospital should hire more doctors and nurse because there are alot more people going the hospital because the lack of doctors in free clinics
Aimee
Friday, September 19, 2008 at 2:20 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
 |
Stephanie Hardy
Stephanie Hardy recently took home the East Coast Music Award for Rising Star. Her singles Waiting for the Tide and Wonder Why hit the #1 spot on the nationally syndicated, internet-based East Coast Countdown before entering heavy rota... |
|
MORE
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
