This federal government has spent 100s of millions of our dollars on various gender studies abroad when that we could have invested in fixing and optimizing health for Canadians. An astounding level, if not criminal, level of negligence and abdication of fiduciary responsibility to Canadians.
Totally agree!! Should not be sending our tax dollars for transgender treatments/surgeries and abortions and birth control products overseas, let alone being paid here in Canada!!!
The broader regulations don't cover cases like this. There should be an avenue for professionals that provides an exception, that can be decided quickly. Typically, Immigration dept. is underfunded.
Meanwhile we have illegal emigration records and terr.o.rist calling for the end of Canada on the streets. With all the extortion they do to us via taxes we should have the best health care system in the world and yet IT SUCKS.
@@OceanFrontVilla3 Not underfunded but following government orders. Harper’s government HAD provisions to admit professionals, Trudeau’s government is the opposite. No professionals are currently allowed but if you are unskilled you are welcome with open arms in Canada to work at Timmy’s.
I know a native born Canadian who attended medical school in the United Kingdom who is not allowed to practice if she returns to Canada. Here is a question that government needs to answer: Why does Canada have 8 times the number of administrators per hospital bed than Germany and twice as many as the UK?
Your are absolutely right! Canada needs to cut back on administration an start employing doctors & nurses...also when you have Unions this is what happens bloated bureaucratic sections of government whether it is Federal or Provincial.
I would gladly pay $10 per visit at the doctor's office to help the office to provide better services and also to help pay for equipment repairs, maintenance, and upgrades. Thank you, Brian and Dr. Barry Dworkin for openly discussing this very important topic. Happy New Year to you both!🎉
Sounds kind but we all pay $6000 a year for this service and I fear extra $10 will just be pocked and never fix anything. We need to make the process efficient and cutting paperwork could be it 😊
With family members in the hospital system, I can't praise them enough for all they do and endure in this nightmare of a system. Losing more and more young people to schooling, incentives and cost of living in the US. Sad. So many people, so few doctors or high quality hospitals.
They've floated this idea for years and might even be implemented in a few places but it does more of what is happening now. People who "can" pay, will. People who cannot or are exempt would not for various reasons welfare/indigenous/immigrant whatever but still use the system MASSIVELY. It needs fixing not more of the same. I go to the Dentist and it costs me $600 for a filling out of pocket but there is a whole giant segment of society that gets unlimited dental and haven't been paying taxes for half a century like me...or a year or will ever. For example.
😂😂😂 that is the problem with government monopoly of socialized health care industry .Throwing money at the problem doesn't guarantee better improved outcomes
I stopped going for checkups. I find the doctors BARELY LOOK AT YOU as they sit at a social distant space, ask questions, and type the answers into the computer. What is the point??? So unless there is something REALLY wrong, I do not waste my time, their time, and tax dollars.
I go for check ups every six mths, because of heart issues, allergy, thyroid & DVT issues along with getting blood work done before appt. This gives the Dr. something to look at, an change if need be. So I do agree with check-ups as my Dr. once said if you don't come in for check-ups regularly how do I get to know you an your medical conditions.
Better to catch a cancer early before it spreads than to wait for symptoms. By the time you have symptoms it's often too late. A lot of the questions a doctor asks will determine which preventative tests are needed to catch a cancer in its early stages.
I'm in my 50's and live in Alberta but I'm from Toronto. I'd be happy to pay per visit. That helps my doctor and ensures he will stay here. Patients should have the choice and we need much less bureaucracy.
I would be happy too except I live on disability and I already live BELOW the poverty line. I cant afford to pay a doctor. Life for me is MISERABLE and I hate it.
Two tier...have and have nots.. hard for low income.. already discriminated enough!! Especially those with physical disabilities..I don't agree with people who choose to do drugs can claim mental disability...makes it harder for people who really need it. Now all painted with same drug addicted brush..even though we paid taxes when we worked for years before body gave out!!
The government gave Stellantis $15 billion to build a $500 million battery plant in Windsor but you think giving them more money will fix anything. Canadians voted for Trudeau. His last electoral victory was over vaccine mandates and yet people voted for him. We're like children getting mad at our tummy after eating ice cream for days. Liberalism ruins everything.
I don't mind spending 10 dollars for a visit as I have paid into Ohio for over 40 years. As people don't seem to realize if you have an income your employee deducts from your paycheck to pay for this and if your income is over a certain ount you pay a surcharge on your income tax. My problem is new immigrants receiving health care.when they come to Canada and haven't paid a dime into the system. Look at all fhe immigrants that bring their parent and grandparents to Canada and are given health care without ever contributing. This is also a major problem why do we not have a.charge for them why do they get.it for.nothing.
We should have had a nominal fee per visit decades ago! Canadian arrogance has put us in this situation. We're so smart ... our health care is FREE! Now we are gouged through our taxes for a health care system that is substandard.
A small fee per visit will fix nothing. We already pay plenty. Money is not the problem. The cost of bureaucracy in the health care system is where to start, to start fixing the system
Great guest today! I’m a low income senior and would be very willing to pay 10$! My kids moved to Vancouver Island and finally after four years they have a family doctor! We all know that something has to change in the medical system.
Sending that Dr. back to the 🇬🇧 UK because she’s over 45 and single is crazy, I mean I don’t think your even allowed to put your age and marital status on a job application, so what gives?
I have completely lost faith in our healthcare system especially after COVID. It needs to be overhauled like every other institution in Canada after the long march for the last 50 years.
I would be happy enough to see a nurse practitioner, but that's not even an option where I live. I have no access to the healthcare that I pay for, and I'm furious.
I had nurse practitioner.....it was horrible...refused to order tests... Or had to wait for her to check in with a doctor anyways... They only good for easy basic medicine...colds flus skin irritation... But no good for complicated stuff!!
I recently had a cervical laminectomy, decompression and fusion from C2-C7 and was discharged 20 hours later, after 7 hours of surgery. What a horrible experience that has left me wondering why I was a pro-social, tax paying Canadian my entire life. The government is not living up to it's end of the taxation for health-care contract.
I had a triple A procedure done.your dr can only keep you in hospital for two days. Even if you live over 500 miles away. Besides it being a long drive. Anything can go wrong.
I am 65 i have not had a doctor since 2015 , This gov should not have incentivised young , new doctors coming out of the college to go as mobile doctors, locking in their pentions, they can't open offices on those contracts . Thank fed gov for doing this, that is why doctors call from ski hills on a cell phone , or one calls from Paris on holiday, they get paid because a doc must prescribe meds . How can any doctor help anyone on a phone if they can't even see you or examine you ?? Thanks to Justin and this government, many do not know doctors make more money going mobile, work less each week, have no office overhead costs .. 😢 .. we have no family doctors, now they are rare thanks Justin.
Most drs including mine prefer a three min phone call over an office visit. They don’t even try to know a patient. They are never around long enough,most leave in a few years.
When I emigrated from the UK to Calgary almost 50 years ago the healthcare was marvellous. If you were working you automatically paid a very reasonable monthly fee deducted from your salary one fee for singles and a slightly higher fee for families. This was the Alberta Healthcare Program. This was changed to free healthcare (probably because of the cost of administration). We then started getting long waiting lists and not necessarily the care we had become used to. My friends and I often say we would be willing to pay a reasonable amount for a visit to the doctor if it improved the treatment. Just my opinion.
My daughter and her family moved to Australia where this co-pay system seems to work. Yes many ppl complain, however, they are able to see a physician right away.
This is false information it's Indians who are coming to Canada pretending to be international students then illegally crossing into the united states by paying fellow Indian smugglers who likelywork for Mexican cartels. But don't worry you'll all be back in india in no time
I believe this isn't the hot potato item it is perceived to be. People waiting for months for surgeryl, and even an appointment. Anyone who has sat 6-12 hours in an emergency department would be more than willing to see a system overhaul. It's long overdue, and meaningful change is NECESSARY. And brain drain is a real thing here.......we too easily lose to the U.S. for all forms of health care. Thanks for the great coverage as usual.
Come as a doctor and apply to stay, Canada kicks you out. Come illegally and demand free shite, they give you 80k a year in free everything and a 4 star hotel room.
I have not had a personal doctor for the last 15 years. My health needs🎉 are done with hospital emergency dept. and a walk in clinic😮 with phone call followed ups. This with shingles, residue nerve pain, fatty liver condition, and high blood pressure. No communication between either health depts. I get no paper work to keep for each concern. Every visit is a new start on my health information. We need a provincial data base for health information for each person, so health care providers quite wasting time for each on health history, hospital and clinic visits, lab works, etc. no one has trouble keeping track of my financial info, so why not health.
Have user fees to help the family physicians to run their practice. The government refuses to have user fees and in the meantime our health system is falling apart.
Ive been on a doctor wait-list for Four years in central BC. Its so ridiculous! 3 Walk in clinics have closed in last 3 years here, and this is a small town in North Cariboo
I've lived in Yellowknife NT for 14 years now. It took me almost a year and a half to get a family doctor. Only to get a letter in the mail 8 months later saying that doctor is no longer a resident of the Territories. But your new family doctor is so and so. I received this letter in the mail 7 times in 4 years.. I'm Currently in between family doctors
Years ago there used to be an OHIP premium that was paid either monthly or yearly. Somebody decided that wasn’t fair. We got rid of it. I think we should bring it back.
I live in Saskatchewan and I'm 68 years old. I would definitely not have a problem paying $10 per visit. I am being monitored for chronic ailments,and it would only cost about $40 a year, sounds reasonable to me.
Get rid of government overreach Too many forms !!! Too many restrictions in their decision making made by people with no medical training Doctors are not being given enough money for support staff for individual clinics anymore Allow doctors more integrity in their own practice Allow a local board of doctors to maintain and manage small town hospitals. Hold in-house elections for the larger centers based on information not popularity Most medical people want data rather than popularity politics 🐁
@regant.cameron8237 frontliners, all the frontliners either life savers or defends teams are the most important at front contribute to taking care of people and nations because without them, are we able to put our thoughts here today? Appreciate the efforts.
I don’t know why politicians don’t ask Doctors like your guest for advice, it’s politicians that would be the ones who have the power to implement and sell such plans to the public, because the good Dr. makes sense to me!
It doesn't pay to be a doctor in Canada. Remember that Trudeau recently increased the capital gains tax rate. When a doctor sells his practice more than half of the profit will be taxed away. So why should a doctor set up a practice in Canada? Trudeau has taxed away the doctors.
Ten dollars now, but like with everything, a year down the road it's twenty etc. etc. I understand and mostly agree, but the "just ten dollars" is a hook that I don't readily swallow.
Thanks for the informative discussion. I would happily pay $10 to see my doc. If it helped more people get a family doctor. Will it make a difference in rural communities?
The ONLY issue with a charge per use is once a practice gets a taste of that sweet cash...they increase the fees and they never ever ever stop or go down. I think mismanagement is the bigger issue. Not at the practice level, but government efficiency level.
My 2 children are doctors graduated from US medical school. Treated as IMG when applied for residency in Canada not as Canadian! No chance of them going back to Canada to practice. Nobody wants them. Something is broken.
10$ is not unreasonable for the majority of Canadians if they feel the improvements are working. This is absolutely the solution. Family practitioners can have a choice to join the program or leave it as is. The patient /customer can decide. The lower income Canadians can be exempt based on their tax return. There must be a public/private solution. I would pay 10$ a visit in a heartbeat. I use Good Doctor now for colds and infections, which is a zoom call after triage and the cost is a 20$ "donation" when the appt is made online.
Definitely need more Nurse Practitioners and physicians assistants. I had a bladder infection and I couldn’t see my doctor for a month. By then it would have moved into my kidneys.
I'm in alberta, but I'd happily pay substantially more than that to feel like I got the best service I possibly can. Not the poor quality service I get now
If you want to know what health care in major urban centres will look like in 10 years, just go to a small rural town outside of Ontario and Quebec. Rural areas have been telling everyone about the lack of health care for over a decade. It's only now becoming an issue as it's finally hitting the pampered urban demographic.
In Ontario...we brag we build a new hospital in a small town...bigger building for administrative and drs and testing equipment, but dont tell you they cut back on the amount of beds and fact emerg dept gets closed!!
I get it that my family Dr now charges for prescription renewal. They are the front line , and getting thinner by the year . No excuse for not granting PR to a qualified Dr . Which is what happened to my last guy and his wife . They both left and went back to Ireland. What a shame !!
I won't begrudge the doctors to cover their overhead but when the government continuously increases taxes people don't want to pay more when they're being told they pay taxes for it. the problem lies in how much of our taxes are wasted on other things that have nothing to do with Canada but it gets given away to other countries with no benefit to us or the bureaucrats expense accounts or programs that only benefit a few. we see the doctors point but can they see ours
At this point, I'd be willing to pay to see a doctor. I had a family doctor for years, but I relocated to another city for work. I have been without a doctor since I moved to where I am in 2014. I've been on a waiting list for years. Now they are talking about closing down both the walk-in clinics in town, due to no doctors. When I do need something, the min wait to see a doctor is about 3 hours from check in, if I'm lucky before they reach daily limits and close. I am closing in on 50, a doctor would be nice.
I'm 62 and for as long as I can remember, the health care system in this country has been in some sort of crisis. Nothing ever changes. Canada is broken.
I volunteered in all areas of local hospitals, for years and couldn't help but notice how much time that nurses were engaged in report-witing. 25%-50%, according to some nurses. Is that useful? Secondly, bureaucratic bloating and bureaucratic interference with medical staff was a constant complaint.
We moved to another city and also our doctors retired. We signed up with a health clinic because we were told by the nurse practitioner that she could do many of the same things that a doctor could do. Some time later my wife had terrific stomach pains. We phoned the clinic and tried to get an appointment. But the clinic never called back. So we immediately cancelled our "membership" with the clinic. We went to emergency service at the hospital. It turns out my wife had an infection from a gall bladder operation. Since then I have gone to a clinic. There you have to be there early and book yourself in. Then you wait until they call you. This can take hours. Usually by early morning the clinic is fully booked and won't accept any more patients. So, it is obvious that our health care system is broken. Why isn't Trudeau fixing this health care mess? Trudeau' s ministers are keeping busy giving themselves millions of dollars in contracts to their companies. Overall Trudeau is incompetent - a colossal failure. Right now Canada is in a big mess because of him. Too bad we could not just fire him right now and usher him out of his office. What a useless Prime MInister Trudeau is!!!!!
Took my dad 10 years to find one around belleville he just got one 3 months ago my doc is 1 30 minutes away and i have to drive by 3 hospitals to get their no way i am giving him up
Let's also remember that the doctor's who are retireing have hundreds of patients and the new doctor's are splitting up all their patients with numerous doctor's just to handle the load and im srry we shouldn't be bringing in doctor's from other countries we should be looking at cutting the cost of the profession is Doctor's didn't have such massive costs for there university degrees maybe more Canadians would be inclined to enter the feild and frankly i just ended up in the hospital recently and alot of the doctor's being brought in from other countries were clueless and frankly horrible not to say all but alot and the other thing frankly is insurance company's have been taking advantage of taxpayers aswell as doctor's time to stop this kind of crap shouldn't need to constantly half to continously fill out forms for these companies doctor's should only have to tell them once when you require there benefits and when once when you no longer require there benefits period if the insurance company's don't want to change then its time to start denying them the option of being able to operate in Canada.
Same with daycare. Overregulation and pushing for accreditation that pushes your average daycare owner out, without actually increasing quality of care or availability. In fact the opposite.
Paying a $10.00 fee to enhance family doctor services is NOT UNREASONABLE! I would be happy to pay the fee to improve services and attract more physicians to family practices!
I am not paying anything. I pay taxes, municipal federal and provincial and I pay into my blue cross. This idea is a hard no for me while they hand hundreds of thousands of immigrants our tax dollars!
Two comments,: how long before the 10,00 becomes 30.00, etc. and also, Canadians should be able to get health care outside of the government program, if the gov can’t guarantee access to care they should allow citizens to get their own. Private clinics should be increasing.
I have always promoted a fee for services. $25 would be reasonable amount for most people. Some people with major issues, children and seniors, could have a lesser amount or none. Means test would be done when tax returns are calculated. a simple notification to the tax payer which says that "you health visits will cost $xx per person per visit". People who have major costs, visits etc. would be caught is the system also. My 2 cents.
I would gladly pay $10/visit, or even $40 if it would improve our Healthcare system and make it easier on our Healthcare providers. I also think it may serve in detering abuse of the system.
I would pay the $10 too but would the doctors then be rushing their patients through the appointment so as to see as many as possible? (That's been happening already though)
It is not only a DR problem. It is the people problem. My wife and I made a decision to become healthy . We lost each 50LB. no restaurant poison food. No poison food with a barcode. All home grown food. We are healthy and have not seen a DR in 5 years. We are 70 years and happy. It is a supply problem.
I have no problem paying $10.00 or even $20.00 per visit for a G.P. Like you are talking about, I haven't had a G.P. since 1999 when mine retired. Good news is I'm in good health, knock on wood.
I’m lucky enough to be fairly healthy and only require renewals of a couple of meds once per year so I only do phone call appointments. I would gladly pay $10/visits
It takes me 6 weeks to see my doctor. You can’t get sick or a miner injury that may need an antibiotic. Going to the hospital is a 6hr minimum wait,sprains, cuts requiring stitches etc.
In Ontario we used to pay $15 for each visit to the Doctor's office. I'm not sure which government changed this system. Maybe we need to go back to that system.
@@arwyn1025 I'm not sure how old you are, but I used to pay this. I believe we also paid an annual OHIP fee before the OHP was included in the income tax return in 2004. I found this in the history of the Ontario Public Medicare: In response to doctors extra-billing patients (charging patients extra user fees on top of OHIP/the provincial public health plan), the Canada Health Act was passed in 1984, establishing five principles for our health care system and banning extra-billing and user fees. Maybe not all Doctors charged this fee, but I know I paid $15 per visit.
@@debh1355 I’m not sure why you had to pay extra to see a doctor, unless they were opted out, but I think that was only for specialists. I figured it out that you are talking about a very long time ago before Ohip was paid by our taxes. My dad worked for a large company that paid for our healthcare before it was covered for everyone.
@arwyn1025 not specialists. Read my comment. Ontario used to allow extra billing. I had the same Dr since I was a child and he charged extra. End of story.
Brian, let's not kid ourselves about how the funding is used without ethical intent. The continuous duplication and reorganization of efforts costs are staggering. The medical machine needs streamlining and centralization. Eliminate the redundancy and reduce the management. Use the funds we provide in a mindful manner instead of the need to spend the budget just to ask for more the next year. Dr. Barry makes sense.
Australia adopted the Canadian health system but the government could not forbid doctors from charging above the government funded scheduled fee. As a result we have a system where the majority of consultations are ‘bulk billed’, entirely paid by the government thus free to the patient, but the doctor has the discretion to charge an extra fee. For most of my consultations I pay an extra fee (around $30) but for some short consultations, the doctor will bulk bill and I pay nothing. Most doctors will bulk bill welfare recipients. The same applies for specialists. I have no trouble getting next day general practitioner appointment and only relatively short waits for specialist appointments. People can receive totally free treatment in public hospitals (and that is where most people would seek treatment for emergencies). However for elective, non-urgent treatments, there can be long waiting lists in public hospitals. There are tax penalties if the well off do not take out private health insurance for hospital treatment and most Australians have private hospital insurance. Private hospitals offer elective surgery in a timely manner and the patient is able to choose their own doctor. Doctors in private hospitals can charge more than the scheduled fee, this means that patients can have extra costs not covered by health insurance. However, on balance this system seems to deliver good outcomes, with everyone able to access primary health care, emergency treatment and urgent non-emergency treatment in a timely manner and cost free for many patients.
Such a different scene here in Arizona. Back in BC I am still on wait list to get in with urologist for my prostate cancer. But this past week my wife crashed her bike and broke a collarbone. We drove over to an urgent care centre. The place was empty! There was a mountain of forms to fill out so I was there over an hour and not a single other patient came in the door. Back in Victoria you go to an urgent care centre and it will be packed with a dozen or two dozen people waiting half a day to see the doctor if you are lucky. My dad spent 30 hours in Emergency in Victoria before he could see a cardiac doc as he was having AFIB. But we went to the hospital in arizona to get the XRay of the collarbone and the place was like a 4 star hotel, mostly empty, no waiting. Same with the orthopedist clinic. But here is the catch: for a 5 min consult with a nurse 5 min with orthopedist and one small xray: $1,200usd! In Canada the family doc, if you can get one, gets barely $30 or $40 for the same service. really really weird in both countries. Paperwork: the urgent care and the DO clinic both had about 20 pages for us to fill out! Now we owned a dental clinic in Canada and I had our new patient form down to ONE PAGE, no more, and the clinic is still that way. Just stop it with the forms, distill them down to necessities like I did.
This federal government has spent 100s of millions of our dollars on various gender studies abroad when that we could have invested in fixing and optimizing health for Canadians. An astounding level, if not criminal, level of negligence and abdication of fiduciary responsibility to Canadians.
Totally agree!! Should not be sending our tax dollars for transgender treatments/surgeries and abortions and birth control products overseas, let alone being paid here in Canada!!!
It is outrageous that this government would send that doctor back to the UK when we are so badly needing more doctors!!! WTF!!!
You are right, and yet they keep letting people in that claim falsely refugee status
The broader regulations don't cover cases like this. There should be an avenue for professionals that provides an exception, that can be decided quickly. Typically, Immigration dept. is underfunded.
Meanwhile we have illegal emigration records and terr.o.rist calling for the end of Canada on the streets. With all the extortion they do to us via taxes we should have the best health care system in the world and yet IT SUCKS.
He must have been a white malle.
@@OceanFrontVilla3 Not underfunded but following government orders. Harper’s government HAD provisions to admit professionals, Trudeau’s government is the opposite. No professionals are currently allowed but if you are unskilled you are welcome with open arms in Canada to work at Timmy’s.
What a horrible time to be a Canadian citizen!
I know a native born Canadian who attended medical school in the United Kingdom who is not allowed to practice if she returns to Canada.
Here is a question that government needs to answer:
Why does Canada have 8 times the number of administrators per hospital bed than Germany and twice as many as the UK?
Your are absolutely right! Canada needs to cut back on administration an start employing doctors & nurses...also when you have Unions this is what happens bloated bureaucratic sections of government whether it is Federal or Provincial.
I would gladly pay $10 per visit at the doctor's office to help the office to provide better services and also to help pay for equipment repairs, maintenance, and upgrades. Thank you, Brian and Dr. Barry Dworkin for openly discussing this very important topic. Happy New Year to you both!🎉
Sounds kind but we all pay $6000 a year for this service and I fear extra $10 will just be pocked and never fix anything. We need to make the process efficient and cutting paperwork could be it 😊
With family members in the hospital system, I can't praise them enough for all they do and endure in this nightmare of a system. Losing more and more young people to schooling, incentives and cost of living in the US. Sad. So many people, so few doctors or high quality hospitals.
They've floated this idea for years and might even be implemented in a few places but it does more of what is happening now. People who "can" pay, will. People who cannot or are exempt would not for various reasons welfare/indigenous/immigrant whatever but still use the system MASSIVELY. It needs fixing not more of the same. I go to the Dentist and it costs me $600 for a filling out of pocket but there is a whole giant segment of society that gets unlimited dental and haven't been paying taxes for half a century like me...or a year or will ever. For example.
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😂😂😂 that is the problem with government monopoly of socialized health care industry .Throwing money at the problem doesn't guarantee better improved outcomes
I stopped going for checkups. I find the doctors BARELY LOOK AT YOU as they sit at a social distant space, ask questions, and type the answers into the computer. What is the point??? So unless there is something REALLY wrong, I do not waste my time, their time, and tax dollars.
Exactly.
I go for check ups every six mths, because of heart issues, allergy, thyroid & DVT issues along with getting blood work done before appt. This gives the Dr. something to look at, an change if need be. So I do agree with check-ups as my Dr. once said if you don't come in for check-ups regularly how do I get to know you an your medical conditions.
Better to catch a cancer early before it spreads than to wait for symptoms. By the time you have symptoms it's often too late. A lot of the questions a doctor asks will determine which preventative tests are needed to catch a cancer in its early stages.
I'm in my 50's and live in Alberta but I'm from Toronto. I'd be happy to pay per visit. That helps my doctor and ensures he will stay here. Patients should have the choice and we need much less bureaucracy.
Not everyone has the cash to do that.. the wealthy will always have a doctor
I would be happy too except I live on disability and I already live BELOW the poverty line. I cant afford to pay a doctor. Life for me is MISERABLE and I hate it.
Two tier...have and have nots.. hard for low income.. already discriminated enough!! Especially those with physical disabilities..I don't agree with people who choose to do drugs can claim mental disability...makes it harder for people who really need it. Now all painted with same drug addicted brush..even though we paid taxes when we worked for years before body gave out!!
@@parentraplook at Sweden. They have a multi tier system that seems far superior to ours.
The government gave Stellantis $15 billion to build a $500 million battery plant in Windsor but you think giving them more money will fix anything. Canadians voted for Trudeau. His last electoral victory was over vaccine mandates and yet people voted for him. We're like children getting mad at our tummy after eating ice cream for days. Liberalism ruins everything.
I don't mind spending 10 dollars for a visit as I have paid into Ohio for over 40 years. As people don't seem to realize if you have an income your employee deducts from your paycheck to pay for this and if your income is over a certain ount you pay a surcharge on your income tax. My problem is new immigrants receiving health care.when they come to Canada and haven't paid a dime into the system. Look at all fhe immigrants that bring their parent and grandparents to Canada and are given health care without ever contributing. This is also a major problem why do we not have a.charge for them why do they get.it for.nothing.
They never had decent medical care at home, so they run to the Doctor's office or emergency for the least little thing because it's free.
Your absolutely right!
Thanks, Brian. Please keep up the good work.
We should have had a nominal fee per visit decades ago! Canadian arrogance has put us in this situation. We're so smart ... our health care is FREE! Now we are gouged through our taxes for a health care system that is substandard.
Absolutely nothing is “FREE”. Full stop.
A small fee per visit will fix nothing. We already pay plenty. Money is not the problem. The cost of bureaucracy in the health care system is where to start, to start fixing the system
I am fine with paying 10.00 a visit, but find MD s barley examin you now when going for annual visit, since covid.
No because not everyone will have to pay, it'll be more of the same.
I would gladly pay $50 if I could get in to see my doctor within a week.
Great guest today! I’m a low income senior and would be very willing to pay 10$! My kids moved to Vancouver Island and finally after four years they have a family doctor! We all know that something has to change in the medical system.
Just turned 70, haven't seen a doctor for many years. But I'd be happy to pay a nominal amount per visit!
Sending that Dr. back to the 🇬🇧 UK because she’s over 45 and single is crazy, I mean I don’t think your even allowed to put your age and marital status on a job application, so what gives?
I have completely lost faith in our healthcare system especially after COVID. It needs to be overhauled like every other institution in Canada after the long march for the last 50 years.
I would be happy enough to see a nurse practitioner, but that's not even an option where I live. I have no access to the healthcare that I pay for, and I'm furious.
I had nurse practitioner.....it was horrible...refused to order tests... Or had to wait for her to check in with a doctor anyways... They only good for easy basic medicine...colds flus skin irritation... But no good for complicated stuff!!
a nurse practioner has 500 hours of clinical training, a doctor has 10,000 to 30,000 hours of clinical training.
@@parentrapmine ruined my health totally she’s evil
I recently had a cervical laminectomy, decompression and fusion from C2-C7 and was discharged 20 hours later, after 7 hours of surgery. What a horrible experience that has left me wondering why I was a pro-social, tax paying Canadian my entire life. The government is not living up to it's end of the taxation for health-care contract.
Governments NEVER keep their end of the bargain.
EVERYTHING government touches turns to sh*t.
I had a triple A procedure done.your dr can only keep you in hospital for two days. Even if you live over 500 miles away. Besides it being a long drive. Anything can go wrong.
I am 65 i have not had a doctor since 2015 , This gov should not have incentivised young , new doctors coming out of the college to go as mobile doctors, locking in their pentions, they can't open offices on those contracts . Thank fed gov for doing this, that is why doctors call from ski hills on a cell phone , or one calls from Paris on holiday, they get paid because a doc must prescribe meds . How can any doctor help anyone on a phone if they can't even see you or examine you ?? Thanks to Justin and this government, many do not know doctors make more money going mobile, work less each week, have no office overhead costs .. 😢 .. we have no family doctors, now they are rare thanks Justin.
Most drs including mine prefer a three min phone call over an office visit. They don’t even try to know a patient. They are never around long enough,most leave in a few years.
They get paid more for staying mobile..
When I emigrated from the UK to Calgary almost 50 years ago the healthcare was marvellous. If you were working you automatically paid a very reasonable monthly fee deducted from your salary one fee for singles and a slightly higher fee for families. This was the Alberta Healthcare Program. This was changed to free healthcare (probably because of the cost of administration). We then started getting long waiting lists and not necessarily the care we had become used to. My friends and I often say we would be willing to pay a reasonable amount for a visit to the doctor if it improved the treatment. Just my opinion.
My daughter and her family moved to Australia where this co-pay system seems to work. Yes many ppl complain, however, they are able to see a physician right away.
And most Australian doctors will not ask for co-payment for those on welfare.
Please do a report on the 126 Canadian universities doing human smuggling to America from India
He won't, he on the take too.
Now that does deserves reporting on!!!! 👍👍😟✌️🇨🇦
This is false information it's Indians who are coming to Canada pretending to be international students then illegally crossing into the united states by paying fellow Indian smugglers who likelywork for Mexican cartels. But don't worry you'll all be back in india in no time
I believe this isn't the hot potato item it is perceived to be. People waiting for months for surgeryl, and even an appointment. Anyone who has sat 6-12 hours in an emergency department would be more than willing to see a system overhaul. It's long overdue, and meaningful change is NECESSARY. And brain drain is a real thing here.......we too easily lose to the U.S. for all forms of health care. Thanks for the great coverage as usual.
Come as a doctor and apply to stay, Canada kicks you out. Come illegally and demand free shite, they give you 80k a year in free everything and a 4 star hotel room.
I have not had a personal doctor for the last 15 years. My health needs🎉 are done with hospital emergency dept. and a walk in clinic😮 with phone call followed ups. This with shingles, residue nerve pain, fatty liver condition, and high blood pressure. No communication between either health depts. I get no paper work to keep for each concern. Every visit is a new start on my health information. We need a provincial data base for health information for each person, so health care providers quite wasting time for each on health history, hospital and clinic visits, lab works, etc. no one has trouble keeping track of my financial info, so why not health.
Have user fees to help the family physicians to run their practice. The government refuses to have user fees and in the meantime our health system is falling apart.
Ive been on a doctor wait-list for Four years in central BC. Its so ridiculous! 3 Walk in clinics have closed in last 3 years here, and this is a small town in North Cariboo
I've lived in Yellowknife NT for 14 years now. It took me almost a year and a half to get a family doctor. Only to get a letter in the mail 8 months later saying that doctor is no longer a resident of the Territories. But your new family doctor is so and so. I received this letter in the mail 7 times in 4 years.. I'm Currently in between family doctors
Good information I have always thought the healthcare industry has way to much management and not enough support systems for the doctors
Years ago there used to be an OHIP premium that was paid either monthly or yearly. Somebody decided that wasn’t fair. We got rid of it. I think we should bring it back.
I live in Saskatchewan and I'm 68 years old. I would definitely not have a problem paying $10 per visit. I am being monitored for chronic ailments,and it would only cost about $40 a year, sounds reasonable to me.
Agreed 👍🏻, what's the practical way towards effective solutions?
Get rid of government overreach
Too many forms !!!
Too many restrictions in their decision making made by people with no medical training
Doctors are not being given enough money for support staff for individual clinics anymore
Allow doctors more integrity in their own practice
Allow a local board of doctors to maintain and manage small town hospitals.
Hold in-house elections for the larger centers based on information not popularity
Most medical people want data rather than popularity politics
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@regant.cameron8237 frontliners, all the frontliners either life savers or defends teams are the most important at front contribute to taking care of people and nations because without them, are we able to put our thoughts here today? Appreciate the efforts.
The co pay is the way to go , really steps up the service . Absolutely .
I wonder how many doctors left the field because of the vaccine mandates, either through disgust or personal health problems.
I don’t know why politicians don’t ask Doctors like your guest for advice, it’s politicians that would be the ones who have the power to implement and sell such plans to the public, because the good Dr. makes sense to me!
They have no time and mine takes 4-6weeks.
I agree to the $10 fee.
It doesn't pay to be a doctor in Canada. Remember that Trudeau recently increased the capital gains tax rate. When a doctor sells his practice more than half of the profit will be taxed away. So why should a doctor set up a practice in Canada? Trudeau has taxed away the doctors.
Ten dollars now, but like with everything, a year down the road it's twenty etc. etc. I understand and mostly agree, but the "just ten dollars" is a hook that I don't readily swallow.
Thanks for the informative discussion. I would happily pay $10 to see my doc. If it helped more people get a family doctor. Will it make a difference in rural communities?
By now, many Canadians have no access to healthcare - so why are costs so high that all Canadians are paying for a few to have a family doctor.
Co pay is a fantastic idea
The ONLY issue with a charge per use is once a practice gets a taste of that sweet cash...they increase the fees and they never ever ever stop or go down. I think mismanagement is the bigger issue. Not at the practice level, but government efficiency level.
My 2 children are doctors graduated from US medical school. Treated as IMG when applied for residency in Canada not as Canadian! No chance of them going back to Canada to practice. Nobody wants them. Something is broken.
Been waiting 3 yrs gor hip replacement in Thunder bay Ontario
10$ is not unreasonable for the majority of Canadians if they feel the improvements are working. This is absolutely the solution. Family practitioners can have a choice to join the program or leave it as is. The patient /customer can decide. The lower income Canadians can be exempt based on their tax return. There must be a public/private solution. I would pay 10$ a visit in a heartbeat. I use Good Doctor now for colds and infections, which is a zoom call after triage and the cost is a 20$ "donation" when the appt is made online.
New Dr.s at one percent, How many are leaving and how many are staying ? That affects it too.
10.00 is nothing compared with waiting time, no Dr & all the other reasons Dr's are overwhelmed! Makes sense to me!
Years ago when I was much younger living in Nova Scotia we had to pay $2:00 for a doctors visit nobody complained and most people had doctors.
Think its rime for trudeau to stand at the back of the line
I haven't seen a doctor in over 40 years.
At this point I doubt that I ever will.
Definitely need more Nurse Practitioners and physicians assistants. I had a bladder infection and I couldn’t see my doctor for a month. By then it would have moved into my kidneys.
We are rural and haven't had a family doctor since 2019. I would gladly pay a user fee. And get rid of the bloat and wastage.
I just got a new family doctor here in beautiful Vancouver. 😍 Happy to pay more.
Once they start charging...they will be like hydro...rates will continue to go up like every 6 months!!!
$10 per visit is veryreasonable.
I'm in alberta, but I'd happily pay substantially more than that to feel like I got the best service I possibly can. Not the poor quality service I get now
I would be happy to pay 10 bucks a visit for better service
If you want to know what health care in major urban centres will look like in 10 years, just go to a small rural town outside of Ontario and Quebec. Rural areas have been telling everyone about the lack of health care for over a decade. It's only now becoming an issue as it's finally hitting the pampered urban demographic.
In Ontario...we brag we build a new hospital in a small town...bigger building for administrative and drs and testing equipment, but dont tell you they cut back on the amount of beds and fact emerg dept gets closed!!
BC is the same bran new hospitals being built but can’t staff them.
Doug Ford failed Ontario..as our immigration department...we need a national strategy to recruit Dr s decades ago
My son and grandsons waited four years to get a family doctor.
I think that the amount of money (maybe half that's collected) we pay to park at a Hospital should go to the Doctor's 🙏
I get it that my family Dr now charges for prescription renewal. They are the front line , and getting thinner by the year . No excuse for not granting PR to a qualified Dr . Which is what happened to my last guy and his wife . They both left and went back to Ireland. What a shame !!
I won't begrudge the doctors to cover their overhead but when the government continuously increases taxes people don't want to pay more when they're being told they pay taxes for it. the problem lies in how much of our taxes are wasted on other things that have nothing to do with Canada but it gets given away to other countries with no benefit to us or the bureaucrats expense accounts or programs that only benefit a few. we see the doctors point but can they see ours
I would be willing to pay more. I’ve always thought we need a $25 fee or more for everyone walking into an emergency room.
Wow eh that would be great to get this done,what we think is free isn’t free wwe pay through our taxes. Thanks Brian
At this point, I'd be willing to pay to see a doctor. I had a family doctor for years, but I relocated to another city for work. I have been without a doctor since I moved to where I am in 2014. I've been on a waiting list for years. Now they are talking about closing down both the walk-in clinics in town, due to no doctors. When I do need something, the min wait to see a doctor is about 3 hours from check in, if I'm lucky before they reach daily limits and close. I am closing in on 50, a doctor would be nice.
I'm 62 and for as long as I can remember, the health care system in this country has been in some sort of crisis. Nothing ever changes. Canada is broken.
I volunteered in all areas of local hospitals, for years and couldn't help but notice how much time that nurses were engaged in report-witing. 25%-50%, according to some nurses. Is that useful?
Secondly, bureaucratic bloating and bureaucratic interference with medical staff was a constant complaint.
We moved to another city and also our doctors retired. We signed up with a health clinic because we were told by the nurse practitioner that she could do many of the same things that a doctor could do.
Some time later my wife had terrific stomach pains. We phoned the clinic and tried to get an appointment. But the clinic never called back. So we immediately cancelled our "membership" with the clinic. We went to emergency service at the hospital. It turns out my wife had an infection from a gall bladder operation.
Since then I have gone to a clinic. There you have to be there early and book yourself in. Then you wait until they call you. This can take hours. Usually by early morning the clinic is fully booked and won't accept any more patients.
So, it is obvious that our health care system is broken. Why isn't Trudeau fixing this health care mess?
Trudeau' s ministers are keeping busy giving themselves millions of dollars in contracts to their companies.
Overall Trudeau is incompetent - a colossal failure. Right now Canada is in a big mess because of him. Too bad we could not just fire him right now and usher him out of his office. What a useless Prime MInister Trudeau is!!!!!
Took my dad 10 years to find one around belleville he just got one 3 months ago my doc is 1 30 minutes away and i have to drive by 3 hospitals to get their no way i am giving him up
I would be happy to spend $10 a visit if it meant getting a family doctor. People need to get past this mentality that everything should be free.
I would pay!
Let's also remember that the doctor's who are retireing have hundreds of patients and the new doctor's are splitting up all their patients with numerous doctor's just to handle the load and im srry we shouldn't be bringing in doctor's from other countries we should be looking at cutting the cost of the profession is Doctor's didn't have such massive costs for there university degrees maybe more Canadians would be inclined to enter the feild and frankly i just ended up in the hospital recently and alot of the doctor's being brought in from other countries were clueless and frankly horrible not to say all but alot and the other thing frankly is insurance company's have been taking advantage of taxpayers aswell as doctor's time to stop this kind of crap shouldn't need to constantly half to continously fill out forms for these companies doctor's should only have to tell them once when you require there benefits and when once when you no longer require there benefits period if the insurance company's don't want to change then its time to start denying them the option of being able to operate in Canada.
Same with daycare. Overregulation and pushing for accreditation that pushes your average daycare owner out, without actually increasing quality of care or availability. In fact the opposite.
Paying a $10.00 fee to enhance family doctor services is NOT UNREASONABLE! I would be happy to pay the fee to improve services and attract more physicians to family practices!
I am not paying anything.
I pay taxes, municipal federal and provincial and I pay into my blue cross. This idea is a hard no for me while they hand hundreds of thousands of immigrants our tax dollars!
In alberta I usually have 4 to 6 week wait to see my family doctor. Rural community.
10K to 20k bureaucrats at Health Canada???? I'd happily pay 10 or 20 dollars per doctor's visit...that is, IF I HAD A DOCTOR!
Two comments,: how long before the 10,00 becomes 30.00, etc. and also, Canadians should be able to get health care outside of the government program, if the gov can’t guarantee access to care they should allow citizens to get their own. Private clinics should be increasing.
I have always promoted a fee for services. $25 would be reasonable amount for most people. Some people with major issues, children and seniors, could have a lesser amount or none. Means test would be done when tax returns are calculated. a simple notification to the tax payer which says that "you health visits will cost $xx per person per visit". People who have major costs, visits etc. would be caught is the system also. My 2 cents.
I would gladly pay $10/visit, or even $40 if it would improve our Healthcare system and make it easier on our Healthcare providers. I also think it may serve in detering abuse of the system.
I would pay the $10 too but would the doctors then be rushing their patients through the appointment so as to see as many as possible? (That's been happening already though)
Good question.
I live in Regina and I like the idea of a co-pay system but personally I would be willing to pay upwards of 100$/ month to guarantee me a doctor.
I would pay $10 per Doctor visit..if that would help make more Doctors available
It is not only a DR problem. It is the people problem. My wife and I made a decision to become healthy . We lost each 50LB. no restaurant poison food. No poison food with a barcode. All home grown food. We are healthy and have not seen a DR in 5 years. We are 70 years and happy. It is a supply problem.
100%. most are sick because of the crap diet they consume
I'd pay ten bucks!
More and more doctors are leaving Canada because they can make more money elsewhere
I have no problem paying $10.00 or even $20.00 per visit for a G.P. Like you are talking about, I haven't had a G.P. since 1999 when mine retired. Good news is I'm in good health, knock on wood.
I would pay $10 or $20 dollars to see a doctor
So 10 dollars a visit would fix this. I’m in.
I’m lucky enough to be fairly healthy and only require renewals of a couple of meds once per year so I only do phone call appointments. I would gladly pay $10/visits
It takes me 6 weeks to see my doctor. You can’t get sick or a miner injury that may need an antibiotic. Going to the hospital is a 6hr minimum wait,sprains, cuts requiring stitches etc.
In Ontario we used to pay $15 for each visit to the Doctor's office. I'm not sure which government changed this system. Maybe we need to go back to that system.
I lived near Windsor and Toronto, and London, Ontario and never paid a penny.
@@arwyn1025 I'm not sure how old you are, but I used to pay this. I believe we also paid an annual OHIP fee before the OHP was included in the income tax return in 2004.
I found this in the history of the Ontario Public Medicare:
In response to doctors extra-billing patients
(charging patients extra user fees on top of
OHIP/the provincial public health plan), the
Canada Health Act was passed in 1984,
establishing five principles for our health care
system and banning extra-billing and user fees.
Maybe not all Doctors charged this fee, but I know I paid $15 per visit.
@@debh1355 I’m not sure why you had to pay extra to see a doctor, unless they were opted out, but I think that was only for specialists. I figured it out that you are talking about a very long time ago before Ohip was paid by our taxes. My dad worked for a large company that paid for our healthcare before it was covered for everyone.
@arwyn1025 not specialists. Read my comment. Ontario used to allow extra billing. I had the same Dr since I was a child and he charged extra. End of story.
So sick of this country having it's head up its ass about "free" healthcare.
What happened to the $300 provincial health fee
Brian, let's not kid ourselves about how the funding is used without ethical intent. The continuous duplication and reorganization of efforts costs are staggering. The medical machine needs streamlining and centralization. Eliminate the redundancy and reduce the management. Use the funds we provide in a mindful manner instead of the need to spend the budget just to ask for more the next year. Dr. Barry makes sense.
Australia adopted the Canadian health system but the government could not forbid doctors from charging above the government funded scheduled fee. As a result we have a system where the majority of consultations are ‘bulk billed’, entirely paid by the government thus free to the patient, but the doctor has the discretion to charge an extra fee. For most of my consultations I pay an extra fee (around $30) but for some short consultations, the doctor will bulk bill and I pay nothing. Most doctors will bulk bill welfare recipients. The same applies for specialists. I have no trouble getting next day general practitioner appointment and only relatively short waits for specialist appointments. People can receive totally free treatment in public hospitals (and that is where most people would seek treatment for emergencies). However for elective, non-urgent treatments, there can be long waiting lists in public hospitals. There are tax penalties if the well off do not take out private health insurance for hospital treatment and most Australians have private hospital insurance. Private hospitals offer elective surgery in a timely manner and the patient is able to choose their own doctor. Doctors in private hospitals can charge more than the scheduled fee, this means that patients can have extra costs not covered by health insurance. However, on balance this system seems to deliver good outcomes, with everyone able to access primary health care, emergency treatment and urgent non-emergency treatment in a timely manner and cost free for many patients.
Such a different scene here in Arizona. Back in BC I am still on wait list to get in with urologist for my prostate cancer. But this past week my wife crashed her bike and broke a collarbone. We drove over to an urgent care centre. The place was empty! There was a mountain of forms to fill out so I was there over an hour and not a single other patient came in the door. Back in Victoria you go to an urgent care centre and it will be packed with a dozen or two dozen people waiting half a day to see the doctor if you are lucky. My dad spent 30 hours in Emergency in Victoria before he could see a cardiac doc as he was having AFIB. But we went to the hospital in arizona to get the XRay of the collarbone and the place was like a 4 star hotel, mostly empty, no waiting. Same with the orthopedist clinic. But here is the catch: for a 5 min consult with a nurse 5 min with orthopedist and one small xray: $1,200usd! In Canada the family doc, if you can get one, gets barely $30 or $40 for the same service. really really weird in both countries. Paperwork: the urgent care and the DO clinic both had about 20 pages for us to fill out! Now we owned a dental clinic in Canada and I had our new patient form down to ONE PAGE, no more, and the clinic is still that way. Just stop it with the forms, distill them down to necessities like I did.
Canada is a third world country.
I'll pay 10 bucks, no problem. I'm sure many intelligent Canadians would to increase their access to a GP.
Sounds good to me