Ford unsure if he should sell Ontario healthcare system to Loblaws, Tim Hortons, or Nestlé

Labatt should be in that list too.

Paying more for less, it's the Ford way.

To be fair, private clinics are good at clearing the backlog of simple surgeries. Simple things that don't take a lot of time or equipment. Something the patient can go home right after.

What they can't seem to do is make enough money to stay in business while sucking off the public teat.

Sure, if you are fortunate enough to have the cash to pay for it.

Funny how they often blame staff shortages for the reason there is such a backlog of people needing surgeries/procedures done yet the private clinics don't seem to have that problem.

Money rules as always.

Add to that the private clinics will scale up on the easy work/high profit/ procedures while the public system is stripped of staff doing the heavy lifting.

As a Doctor why work in a high stress low paying public system being screamed at by patents on social services and complex drug addictions when you can get low stress and same or more pay in a private system with well heeled cliente?

Sure, if you are fortunate enough to have the cash to pay for it.

I mean if the public system pays the private clinic to do it. After all, that is how Doctors offices work. They are private clinics. But they bill the public system for their services.

Makes sense that if an ophthalmologist can perform cataract surgeries in a private operating room, and it lightens the load on a public hospital somewhere and the patient is covered by the public system, why not? Everyone wins.



Oh, don't even get me started! Private healthcare is absolutely not the cure for poorly funding public health.