And a lot of it is due to conservative meddling and wanting to privatize everything. Private clinics still receive public funding… and more of it than public hospitals! This is one reason why it is getting more fucked.
There’s way more to it than that. Health care in general just costs way more now than it used to. Everyone involved has to be paid more. There’s new equipment that costs millions of dollars and new drugs that cost thousands of dollars.
I asked my doctor about some drugs I saw being advertised on TV (while watching NFL broadcasts from the US) and he said a lot of these drugs aren’t available in Canada because they cost tens of thousands of dollars a month and our health care system simply refuses to pay for them.
Kind of, the main issue is that COVID led into boomers getting old and sick in one fell swoop. No healthcare system in the world is adequately to handle a pandemic and then aging boomer surge.
Nurses and doctors were asked to do more than they ever have before and many just retired early or quit so there are shortages everywhere.
The for profit aspect in the US just magnifies the issue locally.
And a lot of it is due to conservative meddling and wanting to privatize everything. Private clinics still receive public funding… and more of it than public hospitals! This is one reason why it is getting more fucked.
There’s way more to it than that. Health care in general just costs way more now than it used to. Everyone involved has to be paid more. There’s new equipment that costs millions of dollars and new drugs that cost thousands of dollars.
I asked my doctor about some drugs I saw being advertised on TV (while watching NFL broadcasts from the US) and he said a lot of these drugs aren’t available in Canada because they cost tens of thousands of dollars a month and our health care system simply refuses to pay for them.
They don’t cost tens of thousands of dollars, they charge tens of thousands of dollars.
Are you saying Luigi should visit the pharma bros next?
Kind of, the main issue is that COVID led into boomers getting old and sick in one fell swoop. No healthcare system in the world is adequately to handle a pandemic and then aging boomer surge.
Nurses and doctors were asked to do more than they ever have before and many just retired early or quit so there are shortages everywhere.
The for profit aspect in the US just magnifies the issue locally.