Trip to ER deemed emergency: free.
Night doctor determined likely gall stone, kept overnight in ER to be confirmed by morning ER doc: free.
Morning doctor determined non-critical issue, added to wait list and scheduled checkin with specialist in 2 months All free.
Same pain next night. Same song and dance, ambulance, same ER night doctor, this time he stays overtime to ensure that it gets an ultrasound booked.
Ultrasound later that morning determines it needs to come out. Admitted same day for surgery. Bumped two days because literal life and death surgeries(c-sections and a motorcycle v car accident victim) and some time to let the surgeon have some sleep. He shows up and gets it done first thing.
Two weeks later, end up getting minor surgery for drain removal because her parent’s cat purred on her nonstop and overhealed the drain scar.
All free.
Tldr: the Canadian system works on priority and is hobbled by conservatives.
Every conservative government cuts funding for every provincial healthcare system and then acts like the idea is flawed after they kneecapped it by limiting nursing hiring, freezing/reducing funding, and doing the 400th reorg to “find efficiencies”. They shuttered 3 ERs in my city against the pleas of the College of Physicians and our ER wait times went up a couple hours overnight.
Who could have guessed?
I will vote Liberal, I will vote NDP, I will vote Green, I will never vote conservative.
This is common and a literal conservative tactic called “starving the beast”. You strangle off funding to a thing you wanna cut, wait a couple months for the service to go to shit because they have to realign to compensate for having no money, and then go “wow look this sucks, better just kill it”.
An ex had bad abdominal pain one night.
Trip to ER deemed emergency: free.
Night doctor determined likely gall stone, kept overnight in ER to be confirmed by morning ER doc: free. Morning doctor determined non-critical issue, added to wait list and scheduled checkin with specialist in 2 months All free.
Same pain next night. Same song and dance, ambulance, same ER night doctor, this time he stays overtime to ensure that it gets an ultrasound booked. Ultrasound later that morning determines it needs to come out. Admitted same day for surgery. Bumped two days because literal life and death surgeries(c-sections and a motorcycle v car accident victim) and some time to let the surgeon have some sleep. He shows up and gets it done first thing.
Two weeks later, end up getting minor surgery for drain removal because her parent’s cat purred on her nonstop and overhealed the drain scar.
All free.
Tldr: the Canadian system works on priority and is hobbled by conservatives.
Every conservative government cuts funding for every provincial healthcare system and then acts like the idea is flawed after they kneecapped it by limiting nursing hiring, freezing/reducing funding, and doing the 400th reorg to “find efficiencies”. They shuttered 3 ERs in my city against the pleas of the College of Physicians and our ER wait times went up a couple hours overnight.
Who could have guessed?
I will vote Liberal, I will vote NDP, I will vote Green, I will never vote conservative.
This is common and a literal conservative tactic called “starving the beast”. You strangle off funding to a thing you wanna cut, wait a couple months for the service to go to shit because they have to realign to compensate for having no money, and then go “wow look this sucks, better just kill it”.
Reagan did it in the 80s.
The “beast” in their narrative is “money going to poor people instead of me and my friends” lest you think any shred of what they do is defensible.
6 month wait for a gall bladder removal in Ontario.
That is the non critical wait time. If there is a risk at all of it bursting, that drops dramatically.