🎙️ Emergency rooms are buckling across the country. Nurse shortages are persisting. Backlogs are still jamming up hospitals.
It's left people and politicians wondering what can be done and whether privatizing the system is part of the answer.
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It's left people and politicians wondering what can be done and whether privatizing the system is part of the answer.
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🎙️ In the latest episode of #TheDecibel, Dr. Alika Lafontaine (@AlikaMD) – president of @CMA_Docs – is skeptical that privatization is the answer.
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🔊 @AlikaMD: "There's no problem with a little bit of outsourcing or a little bit of support for the system. But what we're really talking about is a scale of privatization that we've never really considered before."
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🎙️ What is privatized healthcare?
@AlikaMD: "The first is private systems supporting the existing healthcare system in order to remain sustainable. And then the other part is outsourcing... the much more scary type of privatization."
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@AlikaMD: "The first is private systems supporting the existing healthcare system in order to remain sustainable. And then the other part is outsourcing... the much more scary type of privatization."
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🔊 @AlikaMD: "Whenever a system outsources something, it actually loses the capacity to provide that service within the system and it gives it to someone else... You can get things at lower cost, but what you trade off is reliability, accessibility."
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🎙️ @AlikaMD calls the situation happening right now within Canada's healthcare system a "crisis" and says it's "one of the most severe situations... that I can remember in my career."
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