Ugly Consequences of Nationalized Medicine — Part 4 of 4
Canadian docs are coming to the US.
Why? There’s plenty of opportunity here, and not so much in Canada (HT “S.O.B.er” Interested-Participant):
The best bets for easing Ontario’s doctor shortage include wooing some of the 9,000 physicians trained in Canada but now working in the United States, says the new president of the Ontario Medical Association.
The provincial government has made “significant progress” by increasing medical school enrolment and other measures to increase the supply of doctors in the long run, but more needs to be done in the short term, said Dr. David Bach, who was elected this past weekend.
“It takes many years to increase our pool of new doctors,” noted Bach, a radiologist from London, Ont., who replaces the outspoken Dr. Greg Flynn as head of the association that represents the province’s more than 20,000 physicians.
The association estimates Ontario needs another 2,300 doctors to serve its growing and aging population.
Ontario’s doctor shortage — which has left roughly one in 10 people in the province without a family physician — is precarious because one in every five doctors is older than 60 and 11 per cent have already reached the traditional retirement age of 65, Bach said.
Nationalized health care leads to long waiting lines and rationing of care — even a reduction in the people available to provide that care.
No thanks.
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