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by elevenoh 1626 days ago
Canadian healthcare is indeed in rough shape.

Our health outcomes have plateaued, wait times increased and costs rocketed.

The inevitable nature of uncompetitive systems.
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vsareto 1626 days ago
>Our health outcomes have plateaued

Healthcare is messy. That plateau might be the best we can accomplish given our current technology, science, healthcare, politics, and culture. It's not necessarily a measurement that always has to go up (like USA stocks).

If you want to put this on non-competitive systems, the USA has a competitive system and it is probably worse than Canada. If not completely worse, then certainly worse on major dimensions like cost and accessibility.

I'd be interested in what these health outcomes measured if you have a link handy.

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metalliqaz 1626 days ago
Unlike here in the US where we have a mostly private health care system.

Our health outcomes are actually dropping, wait times are bad, and costs are the highest in the world.

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southerntofu 1626 days ago
> The inevitable nature of uncompetitive systems.

This is highly misinformed. The problem is precisely the introduction of competitiveness in a system which previously worked well. This is for example explained in Adam Curtis' documentary The Trap Part 2 [0] which you may find online in many places.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_(British_TV_series)

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