The Health Care Gamble
July 4, 2023
I spotted a curious ad from the Ontario Nurses’ Association in a bus shelter the other day.
They claim to be so concerned about the sorry state health care system. Privatization will destroy it, they say. According to them, the real problems are understaffing and a lack of funding.
They’re right about understaffing. There’s seemingly no shortage of highly-paid bureaucrats, but not enough front-line doctors and nurses. All chiefs and no Indians. But if this was such a concern to them, why, pray tell, did they, like so many of their union brothers and sisters, roll over and allow the government to fire so many of their members for not taking deadly poison injections? Whatever happened to solidarity forever?
And the lack of funding argument is laughable. We literally pay through the nose. For all the taxes we pay, every Canadian in need should be able to have a stretch limo ready to drive them to a hospital with gold-plated floors and have a team ready and waiting to treat them as soon as they walk through the door. No, the problem is that we’re getting less bang for our buck than any nation on Earth. Though there are some who remain unconvinced, the simple fact is that government is the most costly and inefficient service provider mankind has ever known. This is a universal truth.
The solution to the many problems that plague our health care system is not more taxes and more government. It’s less government. More private-sector options.
It’s hardly a gamble, as the unions suggest.
As we’ve seen highlighted over the last three-plus years, access to care under the government-only system has been pitiful. Look at how many were and still are being denied life-saving treatment or simply access to a physician for not kowtowing to the government’s dark order to take those lethal injections.
The much-ballyhooed public health care system politicians and unions crow about is nothing to be proud of. In fact, it’s a national embarrassment that’s killing Canadians at an alarming rate.
The only gamble is maintaining the status quo.
And the odds aren’t good.
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