Canada's population is booming – access to family doctors hasn't kept pace

As a result, doctors are moving to BC from other provinces and countries and, as an anecdote, my small community now has 3x as many doctors as it had before. Money works.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/444844/canada-median-age...

Med students caught on, why work your ass off in the most thankless field of medicine to make 200-300k when you could be a cardiologist and make $1mm reading X-rays?

Both the Canadian and British Single Payer system are holdovers from the post-war Old Labour era, specifically, the vision of Clement Attlee in the UK and Tommy Douglas in Canada.

I think a lot of people forget that Canada was basically Britain-lite until the 70s and 80s (hell, Newfoundland was under direct British rule until 1945), when Americanization became more prominent in the younger post-war generation.

Most of the Canadian leadership until the 1980s studied in the UK, were born in the UK, or were the children of immigrants from the UK. And specifically blue collar Labour Party leaning parts of Scotland. As such, a lot of the policies and legislation passed in Canada before the 80s or 90s tends to have a significant amount of British influence in it.

Australia's is similar as well, but they moved towards a public-private model in the late 1990s after their economy almost collapsed in the early 1990s.

But this is not a "just don't pay them properly" issue because in Canada free market competitive forces don't economically suffocate out the bad-incompetent doctors and administrators, and also then don't fuel-reward the good-best doctors and administrators.

How do I know this? 10+ years of hell trying to navigate the Ontario medical system, the prior 10+ years being harmed by that Ontario system - where I have had to spend $600k+ getting medical treatment outside of Canada, with the next surgery coming in in Europe to add another 60k EUR to medical expenses - of which I would have to find a lawyer who specializes in suing OHIP, spend another $200k+ and years of time, to try to get compensated for any of the expenses; stress, time, and money that isn't available to initiate that.

Anyone defending the current system has no leg to stand on: there's absolutely zero oversight and accountability. Example? I recently actually became a "rostered" patient with a general-family physician, rostered meaning that instead of going to a walk-in clinic and waiting many many hours to briefly discuss 1 thing - I can book an appointment instead. Of the 3 phone calls I had with this "family" physician so far, of which I had a file with them for years and recently had see multiple of his assistants (PAs: physician assistants), he hadn't even for a moment reviewed my file, nor on the 2nd and 3rd call did he even review the previous call notes with me - to even know what page he should be on; and no, not a new physician, he's been practicing for 25+ years.

This also is part of a planned destruction-erasure of Canadian culture and weakening of the population strategy.

In part via weaponized immigration + weaponized international student visas + irrational-illogical highly harmful "carbon tax" on all Canadian products and services - rather than say specifically on products coming from China - which arguably the majority are but Trudeau is toeing the CCP line, our intelligence agency CSIS having multiple whistle blowers [one who even came publicly forward to add credibility] stated that Trudeau and 11+ MPs had help of CCP to get elected for at least the last 2 elections; and more tactics they deployed.

Chart showing the West reducing its CO2 emissions vs. China's skyrocketing: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?facet=none&Gas+or+W...

Ignorance is bliss, and if the depths of your understanding is only what's discussed as acceptable to pop culture - which is heavily crafted by what narratives state-funded media like CBC floods the landscape with - then you'll miss the foundational points, because they don't want you to know the fundamentals, don't want you critically thinking through - they want you regurgitating-parroting.

I did not know about "case management plans". That's a lot of money but for the price of a nice Apple laptop, a more personalized assessment of my chronic digestive issues? I might resort to that.

Canada took immigration on steroids under their current government. Many think it’s not sustainable with housing, medical, education, and social services unable to absorb such large growth short term.

Australia and New Zealand are other countries with a points-based system. Australia likewise has much higher immigration than US, although currently not quite as high as Canada. New Zealand’s immigration levels have historically been higher than the US too, although the last few years have been a COVID-induced anomaly. (Again, when I say higher, I mean per capita - in absolute terms the US comes first globally, but per capita it is only about average.)

> Canada is going through an unprecedented growth spurt, having added well over a million people last year after a similarly historic intake in 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Initiative

It's pretty scary that the powers that be want more immigration yet don't actually have a real implementation for it. This goes against everything engineers value, obviously for many of us here. The likely consequence is a lot of harm and disruption to people in the future.

I mean, I guess the real plan is the Canadian 1% exploiting a booming immigrant society.