Too much info on this topic to talk about it all, so I will mention one thing I found very interesting. A Fraser Institute report states that the entire government increase to Ontario hospitals between 1997 and 2002 went to increasing payrolls. But guess what, it wasn't the doctors that got that money. The average income for Ontario physicians has declined for the last three decades and is at three quarters of its peak, which was in 1972. Pay for doctors has dropped by half compared to average Ontario incomes. So where did the money go? This statement is telling "Nurses, mid- and low-level unionized workers, and senior management has relatively high pay, often 20 percent beyond the private sector and hospitals in other provinces." Will all this new money the feds are promising just go to the unions as well?
I will leave you with two other quotes from the report:
"It is impossible for the public sector health system, as currently structured, to solve access and control issues at the same time."
"The best way to encourage better allocation of hospital funds and to increase access and quality of care is to introduce competitive markets in health services and insurance."
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Doctors have known about their decreasing buying power for years, we started out pretty good but this fact has also led to things like doctors having to deal with things like fixing their own instead of buying new cars etc. You think "ah too bad" they have to be like the rest of us - thing is we're not - try juggling the life threatening drug interactions between three or more drugs in your head and be able to do it within minutes - and not kill the patient!
It gets worse - our daughter who won the high school governor general award, scored in the top 99 percentile in the US SATs did not go into medicine at my recommendation - instead she is a research marine biologist - if you are going to work for increasing less and get abuse from over paid nurses, administrators and many ungrateful patients who see you as too rich - do something else that can help the world.
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