As a Canadian, I can tell you that our health care system is a very important item in our daily life.
Unfortunately today we have a situation wherein people do not have an appreciation of what the system costs and it is abused.
My GP when asked told me she believed that 2/3 of the people in her office didn’t need to be there. This is what happens when there are no user fees associated with usage of the health care system. I believe a combination of a nomimal ($20 or so) charge to go to a GP with some private delivery of health services would make our system far more effective.
I also agree with the post regarding creating more doctoral seats at the universities. You are completely right that this would reduce the inflation we see with the cost of doctors. We also need many more nurses as their inflation is worse currently than the doctors. We have nurses making well into the six figures in Canada, which I don’t believe we need to be doing.
Pixologic: your comment doesn’t make sense. Because of the low number of people who get into our Med Schools, the people who get into Med Schools in Canada are the brightest people on campus. They are not “amateurish” in the least and I would put the quality of Canadian trained doctors against any out there.
