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#Canada: Three-million-person waiting list for healthcare & What is to be done?. Conrad Black, National Post

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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#Canada: Three-million-person waiting list for healthcare & What is to be done?. Conrad Black, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-canadas-failing-health-system-is-but-a-symptom-of-a-broken-nation

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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Medical care in Canada. I learned from Conrad

0:41.7

Black to distinguish biographer writing at the National Post a completely surprising

0:46.4

fact given the generosity, prosperity and wisdom of the Canadian culture for decades, hundreds

0:55.1

of years. Canada is 26 out of 31 OECD countries in medical doctors and 17 out of 32 in nurses.

1:07.3

There's a shortage in Canada. Why and how is the subject of Conrad's column? Conrad,

1:14.3

I had heard that the National Health in Britain was in trouble and I presume that all

1:20.9

national health systems are now challenged by costs and demand and medical medical miracles

1:27.4

which are in short supply and so they're waiting for this. But I had no idea that Canada

1:32.5

had fallen so far behind in the OECD. Is there one explanation? Good evening to you.

1:38.5

Good evening to you, John. Canada took the position under the Governor of the former Prime

1:45.5

Minister Trudeau, the father of the President, Pierre Trudeau. This was in 1984 when it instituted

1:53.2

its system that they would purport not to allow private medicine. So all doctors in effect

2:01.0

had their had their receivables guaranteed by the government, but they to all and since

2:06.7

in purposes became government employees. Now they didn't in fact, of course, they're not

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