{"id":133998,"date":"2022-11-26T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=133998"},"modified":"2022-11-25T18:25:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T23:25:55","slug":"so-you-like-socialized-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=133998","title":{"rendered":"So you like socialized medicine?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada has socialized medicine, right? I know we have some here (in the US, not necessarily on this forum) who think it should be mandatory here. But, like communism, the theory seems to be far divorced from the reality, and it’s coming to a head in Ontario, where the Health Ministry is asking doctors and clinics to extend their hours into evenings and all weekend, too. No mention of additional funding, just asking them to do it. And remember, under the socialized system, the Ministry IS their employer.<\/p>\n

A notice from the Ontario\u2019s Ministry of Health, asking primary care providers to stay open seven days a week in an effort to ease wait times in hospitals, is being met with disbelief by many medical workers.<\/p>\n

The notice was sent by Nadia Surani, the director of the primary health care branch in the Ministry of Health. It addresses the issues that are plaguing hospitals this fall, with an onslaught of COVID-19, influenza and Respiratory syncytial virus, which is expected to continue into the winter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Who says the Canadians haven’t kept up with us – we worked our medical folks into the ground and fired ’em if they didn’t get vaxxed – Canada is taking a slightly more subtle approach and just asking them work 7 days a week and evenings with no mention of extra funding or pay.\u00a0 Support for this in the Twitterverse is, shall we say, somewhat underwhelming.<\/p>\n

Me, I lived with the military system, VA, and an extremely good HMO when I lived in the People’s Republic of Maryland. I’m OK with the concept of a centralized socialized medicine in theory, just like I am OK with socialism in theory.\u00a0 But, in practice, these things just don’t seem to work out due to that unsavory human influence… which leaves us regarding free-market medicine like democracy: it may be less than ideal in many ways, but it’s miles ahead of whatever OTHER imperfect system is in second place.<\/p>\n

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